Category: education
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“What is [x]”, part 2
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I am very cynical about how Matt Walsh honestly and genuinely wen around looking for “truth”. In all his interviews, it is abundantly clear he did not give time for his interviewees time to prepare and represent proper and cited material for counterarguments or even formulate a proper argument in order to best represent their…
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“What is [x]?” Part 1
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So I have been sent a video by Matt Walsh, a notorious conservative who made a documentary about his search about defining the notion of “womanhood.” And I have a few thoughts to share about them The documentary immediately starts with a salvo of misconceptions about LGBTIQ+ 1. You do not “bring out” the “hidden…
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Con Templation
The word “temple” comes from the Greek “templum/temenos” – “to cut away with a scythe”; reminiscent of Chronos, the Titan God of Time brandishing his scythe, later morphed into the incarnation of death. The temple is literally the place to put time apart from reflection away from it all. Glorification of the human condition reflects…
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Plausible Deniability…?
I have…questions. In the article posted by the Times of Malta, Fr. Aaron Zahra, the Rector and St. Albert the Great, sticks to his guns and states that Mr. Mario Mallia, who is at the forefront of a lengthy saga, has allegedly refused to seek audience with the board of directors to discuss his ideas…
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Marvel-lous Representation
Don’t you just hate it that you still need to have the same conversation over and over again? This weekend has been a very busy one for comic fans with SDCC being in full swing. And as per usual, the discourse went into “woke culture” and all that nonsense about how it is “ruining media”.…
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“Children these days…”
Among the many silly platitudes you hear from the average Maltese Joe is the endless tirade against the “children these days” (“It-tfal tal-llum”). How spoilt they are, and how they know no suffering, and so on and so forth. I often wonder if the people spouting such nonsense are aware that children do not spout…
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“Quid pro quo.”
ABA, or applied behavioural analysis, is applied (indeed) behaviourist principles to the moulding of behaviour in individuals through the analysis of antecedent, behaviour and consequence and the reinforcement through reward or punishment as first outlined by F.B Skinner. In other words, shaping expected behaviour through, indeed, reward or punishment after having scrutinised the rationale behind…
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Setting Them Up to Watch Them Fall
The system is failing; the amount of content that is expected across the board, even without considering the various individual needs of the students to interact with the curriculum, is laughable. Does anyone out there know or realize that a lot of what my generation was expected to know at the secondary level is now…
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…with a Whimper.
I have said before that I hold no faith in the unions representing education locally. And people wonder why we are not taken seriously; I find these to be an overall embarrassment to whatever education is. Here we are, meaning to empower the educator to better perform what they do while indulging in a veritable…
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