Time to be idle
Maybe it's our age, but chriscurnow.com feels he needs more time to be idle. Don't get us wrong. We don't ever want to stop working. We have an ambition to be still working into our 80s. However we want to do a different type of work. Sitting and thinking can be work....
The world didn’t stop
The other day I saw a duck ... It was dead. But The world didn't stop I did. But everyone kept going I laughed. No-one else laughed Because they though it was funny It was sad Wasn't it? Chris Curnow, 1971
Can education replace the law?
The federal government's proposal to remove unfair dismissal provisions for companies with less than 100 employees certainly has a lot of people talking. This segment on ABC radio's pm program tonight discusses the possibility that Tasmania may become the pathfinder...
The loss of power and the ‘Men’s Movement’
When I was teaching there was some interesting research going around regarding boys perception of teacher's time spent with boys and girls. Firstly, by analysing video of many co-ed classes the research found that boys overwhelmingly received more of the teacher's...
Men, Cars & Cooking
In her latest BOSS Endnote, the always interesting Amanda Sinclair. currently occupying a visiting position at the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge Univeristy, points to a profound social phenomenom currently taking place in Britain. The machine is being...
Mind and Body ageing together
Sue from Calendar Girl is finding it hard to keep body and mind in synch as the years pass. I wonder what this tells us about the transition from youth to full adulthood. In so many ways we want to hold on to our youth. As each decade passes it becomes harder to keep...
50 Writing Tools
PoynterOnline has a series of 50 writing tools. I like "These are tools not rules." Thanks to Scribblingwoman for the link.
The myth of the heroic leader lives on
It's old news now that Sol Trujillo is the new CEO of Telstra but we are going to see lots of stories referring to the
The wasted generation
It seems the baby boomers are dvidided in their approach to retirement. That's the view at least of this BRW article [Subscription required]. I have to point out that, true to its form, BRW discusses only the top 10% wealthiest baby boomers. Allowing for that, the...
Testing Theory X and Theory Y
Kevin Donnelly tirelessly argues the case that our schools are failing. He was at it in The Age again recently with this piece. Donnelly's argument basically goes that schools have been taken over by leftist progressives who are "committed to overthrowing the...