When the school year ends in the next few weeks, more than a handful of students (and teachers?) will look back and think: “What was the point of all that?”
For some, it only takes a glimpse of life outside the classroom to start questioning the purpose of school. Especially when all the fun seems to happen beyond the academic calendar.
Of course, parental pressure aside, most students stay in school because they realize an education will help them sustain a career they (hopefully) enjoy, affording them a comfortable, satisfying lifestyle. And some students simply like to learn.
But, as a society, are these the only reasons we have school?
Just posted another great resource for Qualrus users on our support page.
Our second training video shows you how to set up a coding scheme using the code editor, how to organize a hierarchy of codes and how to code your project effectively.
If you’re just starting a project (or soon will be), it should be a big help!
Psychology professors rejoice! We’ve got a new set of psychology writing assignments ready to use in your class this fall!
Based on one of the most popular intro psych texts (Psychology by David G Myers), our assignments have already been tested in the classroom for quality. And we’ll let you use two of them at no cost.
My one complaint against machine-made goods is precisely this: that they too often hide their light under a bushel of “design”. Think how decent alarm clocks might be if they were just as plain and well-made outside as they often are inside!
If we insist on the ornamental we are not making the best of our system of manufacture, we are not getting the things that system makes best.
The truth is that a thing fit for its purpose is necessarily pleasant to use and also beautiful (i.e. seen as being in itself delightful to the understanding). I think an artist is not a person who makes things beautiful, but simply one who deliberately makes things as well as he can — whether he is a clock-maker or picture-painter; because machine-made things are very much better when no “designer” has had anything to do with them — when they are just plain serviceable things. I think that if you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
- British typeface designer Eric Gill in his recent interview with MyFonts
