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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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Why writing poetry is better than going to the gym
Read more: Why writing poetry is better than going to the gymRead on to the end for an additional exercise! You haven’t been to the loo yet (the loo, loo, if you know what I mean) and feel your stomach going up and down and making loud noises and you’re all clogged up inside and have to stop running after 5 minutes for fear of exploding.…
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Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little Bit
Read more: Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little BitWhen I was a kid, I was terrified of death, which was slightly peculiar, as the topic of death was not an unfamiliar one in my family. My mother is a pastor and besides church services and weddings, she often leads funeral services, about which she shares stories often enough. On the other hand, that…
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Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?
Read more: Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?What do you mean, “not that kind of evolution”? I am a scientist, and a fairly broadly educated one at that, and so I can have a tendency to forget that a lot of things I take for granted are, in reality, quite complicated for most of us. Like, you know, quantum mechanics. Or much…
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