The time has come to address the neck tie.
I knew it would come to this one day, and that day is now, not nigh.
The necktie
As long as it is unconventional, radical, and daring, that long shall I wear neckties!
“Are you a reader?”
When I admitted to being a reader, the door opened!
“Are you a reader?”
Should one admit to being a reader? That is the question.
One Day Cricket
Without a narrative context all One Day cricket has to offer is the show, and Twenty20 is far better at that.
Yes, Bleaders, I have something to say about this, too.
Passion leads to ruin.
Too many policies are pursed on the basis of exaggeration and overstatement, call that sensationalism.
I keep going on about the dangers of passion.
October 2009 Community Partners Reception
More on passion versus plod.
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I offered my arguments for plod over passion awhile back. Bleader, if you missed it do not pass Go until you have. It is on 12 August 2008. Click here https://theory-practice.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2008/08/professionalism_over_passion_a.html
Deep approaches to learning and teaching
A disconnection between teaching and learning does occur. Even the best prepared material does not produce learning.
The attached file is the text of a talk I gave on teaching a time ago. It is based in part of research into learning in higher education, but of course reflects my own experience.
Click on it and have a look.
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“Democracy” is “motherhood” these days.
Today they would be extolling Comrade Number One in North Korea and telling us that the people of North Korea support the regime. Just look at those televised spectacles.
Everyone is a democrat, but what is “democracy?”
Degree in a Day – 16 April 2009
Here is the PowerPoint file on Leaders, leadership, and us. It is a link to You_Tube.
Best wishes.
Michael Jackson
Government and International Relations
Welcome to GOVT3993
Click on the icon below to see a message of greetings to students enrolled in GOVT3993 in 2009.