Author: James Belchamber
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A Liberal education must be centred around the individual
In a previous article I was scathing about this government’s approach to education – a regressive insistence on churning out compliant automatons while employers demand creative, self-directed and specialised workers. But in their approach is a logic – that learners all need to be calibrated to a common criteria. This plays out in a national curriculum –…
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Fire your rockstars
This week, the Free (Libre) and Open Source Software community are attempting to remove an activist (known for their repugnant and bigoted views) from the board of the Free Software Foundation, an important institution in the FLOSS community. The activist – Richard Stallman – founded the organisation and is widely considered to be the founder of the Free Software movement. He is…