Researchers in the US have concluded that blogging also makes
bloggers better thinkers. US neurologists Fernette and Brock Eide
conducted a survey of the blogosphere and posted their results on
their own site. The research began with the proposition that our
mental activities actually cause changes in the structures of our
brains -not only what we think, but how we think as well.
children who were becoming less resilient and unable to cope with failure
someone invented the concept of self-esteem,'' Dr Kefford said. ''In some ways it has been the most damaging educational concept that has ever been conceived.
That is when we stopped our proper work in the character formation in young people. If we are serious about building resilience, we have to let them fail. It is only through our failings in the learning process that we learn anything
In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'',
something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and
community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.