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Jul
28
On Honour
July 28, 2003 | Leave a Comment
I’ve got a colleague at COB who gives his students questions like the following at the beginning of every semester and asks the class to discuss the answers together:
1. You find a wallet on the ground. In it are a BEC bill for $80 and four twenty dollar bills. What do you do?
2. [...]
Jul
21
On Critical Thinking
July 21, 2003 | Leave a Comment
A man and his son are driving home one day when they get into a terrible accident. The man dies on the way to the hospital, but the son can be saved by emergency surgery. The surgeon on duty takes one look at the boy and walks out of the theatre, saying to [...]
Jul
7
On Quality
July 7, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Last Monday the National Art Gallery opened at Villa Doyle. For those of you who don’t know, Villa Doyle is the big yellow house at the junction of West Street and West Hill Street, in town, opposite the St Francis’ Catholic Cathedral and just up the hill from Educulture.
It is the best thing the [...]
Jul
7
On Education
July 7, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Contrary to popular wisdom, I think television is a great tool. I watch a lot of it. I am married to a director who is always doing research. Because we don’t have an active theatre scene in the country any more (something which bears discussion, but not now), he keeps his hand [...]