Tag Archives: Education

Only on Independent Media

The Malay­sian Insider, des­pite whatever flaws it may con­tain, at least has one brain up (and per­haps the balls of Zeus) on the tra­di­tional main­stream media bod­ies in Malay­sia. Zurairi A. Rah­man has pub­lished an art­icle call­ing out the extraordin­ar­ily stu­pid and self-serving decisions (my words, Zurairi is much more of a gen­tle­man in prose) …

Wednesday, 8th February, 2012 – 0117 | By Rewarp | Posted in Politics, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

The Bachelor’s Degree

is no longer car­ry­ing the same weight it once did. Can the rate of infla­tion affect per­cep­tion of edu­ca­tion stand­ards as well?

Friday, 4th March, 2011 – 0701 | By Rewarp | Posted in Funny | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Seeding Knowledge

Khan Academy is a test­a­ment to the human desire to acquire and spread know­ledge. Know­ledge is power. The more you know, the higher your level, and sub­sequent increases in Hit­points, and Mana. Unfor­tu­nately, much of the world’s know­ledge is inac­cess­ible to those in poverty, or who can only get by with the most basic of text­books. …

Tuesday, 15th February, 2011 – 1206 | By Rewarp | Posted in Millennium Development Goals, Science | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Speaking Truth to Absurdity

There have been recent argu­ments, which I have myself encountered, on why I should bother chal­len­ging the pre­vail­ing views of oth­ers; why I should attack their cher­ished beliefs although they claim to have done noth­ing to attack my beliefs. A recent debate comes to mind which didn’t even qual­i­fied as a debate as a tone-troll …

Saturday, 14th August, 2010 – 0832 | By Rewarp | Posted in Atheism, Science, Studies | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)