Category: Academia
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In Defense of a Dutch Education Reform: Why Graduating High School Should Not Have Been That Much Work
Read more: In Defense of a Dutch Education Reform: Why Graduating High School Should Not Have Been That Much WorkAbout a month ago, I first read about the possibility of a “customized” secondary school diploma in the near future, meaning that students would be able to graduate in subjects on different levels. Paul Rosenmöller, chairman of the Secondary Education Council (VO-raad), wants to implement this proposition soon. Aside from a few hang-ups, I am…
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Higher Education is Mental
Read more: Higher Education is MentalWhile Yentl wrote about the over-sensitivity and the tendency to romanticize melancholy that seems to apply to our generation, I’d like to write about what also seems to be a big issue for people around twenty. Perhaps it goes hand in hand, or little finger in little finger, with the over-sensitivity that we were raised with,…
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Humanities: Rethink, Redefine, Reform
Read more: Humanities: Rethink, Redefine, ReformIt’s a tough world out there as a humanities scholar. Facing virtuous doctors, renowned mathematicians, and heroic physicists, we are more than often advised to celebrate the wondrous worlds of Raphael’s Stanze, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, whilst occasionally throwing around a Judith Butler text, alone, without claiming their utility. Studying humanities is a way…
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It’s The Hard Knock Life
Read more: It’s The Hard Knock LifeThe biggest obstacle for me in my hopefully-soon-to-be-finished BA trajectory has been the course “Wetenschapsfilosofie”. Twice. After having done two of its exams in the first exam week, I am once again feeling the anticipating fear and despair in my gut of having to wait for the results and getting to know whether or not…
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