A recent question on Quora was: “What Does a PhD student know that a MS student doesn’t”? I started to write my opinion and realized that it was going to take a while so stopped. But after some reflection, this what I think – blurbed out here instead of Quora.
Category: Education
Tales related to the schools I have learned at or taught at
Form 1D
I heard a jolting, funny answering machine message today. Do listen to it. It was prepared by frustrated schoold teachers at a school in Australia. I have a lot of admiration for school teachers – I was a part-time teacher for a while. And for 13 years I was a pupil,; perhaps as you were, too?…
Soul-Soaring (Fract)Elation
A young man in a faraway dominion of my life told me the other day that this website (edmedley.com) was full of my “self-elations”. Although puzzled at his choice of words, I did not correct him, since I think I knew what he was trying to say. Because the overall tang of his words was…
The Motley View: On Geonudity and Some Benefits of Your GeoEngineering Education
About the time that this issue of the Motley View will be published [April 2008] the 2008 class of UC Berkeley GeoEngineers will be finishing the Spring Term, soon to graduate. They will work through the night to complete the CE270L report for Prof. Seed, attend the Distinguished Lectures, party at the Banquet, listen to the…