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Fifteen years ago, I would probably welcome Rogers's ideas about the issues of the education system. Fifteen years ago, my familiarity with this system in the West was minimal, and i would accept anything that sounded logical enough. Fifteen years ago, I did not have kids who attended elementary school in the US. I sometimes marvel at how quick people are quick to blame the failure of the American elementary school to do its work to society's satisfaction on the usual culprits: stagnant system and the of funds. May be, the ease of solutions is the reason: change the system radically or throw more money in. And yet I think that the problem is much deeper than that. I believe there are three issues that cannot be resolved simply by throwing money on the problem or by p ushing any experimental method, as wonderful as it can be. These are disregard for intellectualism, lack of encouragement of hard work and teachers' indifference. I disagree with Rogers that the main attracti

I'm not a big fan of autobiographies. The reason is probably bad experiences in the past. I had so much expectations from Gandhi's, and yet after fifty or so pages of painstakingly crawling through a detailed description of his daily routines with very few ideas that could sneak in between, I had to call it quits. There were many others, similar to that. Malcol X's was fascinating, on the other hand; it was written by another person, though. I guess there could be two types of interesting autobiographies: the ones that describe adventurous lives, and the ones that follow a development of an idea. Rogers's belongs to the second kind. It describes his life as a stage on which the play of his ideas unfolded. The dates, places, jobs are the decorations; his thoughts, desires, mistakes and successes are the actors. And there is a direction, a progression - and that's the one which is so interesting to follow. One meaningful play... As I was exposed a little to Rogers

Hello and welcome to M ichael Y udanin's world. This blog is dedicated to my personal musings about the questions of life, with an occasional frustration or two to share and excitements to express. Specifically, I will share my thoughts about philosophy - a field with which I have been fascinated for five or so years, and which I finally decided to pursue academically. Hope you find it interesting. I have another blog dedicated to my software quality assurance and testing business - http:/qaway.blogspot.com .