Freddie deBoer
Person on 4 sites
Writer and academic; author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement, and of a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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18 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works. (opens korrents.com)
“Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.”
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The best teachers, unlimited resources and every evidence-based intervention still fail on a student who does not want to learn. (opens korrents.com)
“You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged,…”
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Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence. (opens korrents.com)
“Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.”
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Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Neuromancer (opens rcmnd.app)
“Neuromancer is a book I love without reservation and have loved for a long time, and not only has it never been successfully adapted”
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Burning Chrome (opens rcmnd.app)
“He'd already coined "cyberspace" in a 1982 short story, "Burning Chrome," which was later included in his excellent collection of the same name. (I have recommended people read "New Rose Hotel" from that collection…”
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A Ribbon For Your Hair (opens rcmnd.app)
“There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.”
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Neuromancer (opens rcmnd.app)