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By 3800 BCE the Sumerians had supplanted the Ubaidians and Semites in southern Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were the first to start using the alloy bronze, which allowed them the development of much better instruments than the ones that had been poss...
| May. 26, 2010 | Read more |
Education in its technical sense is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. (Wikipedia definition) Even before the necessity of schooling, since ancient a...
| May. 21, 2010 | Read more |
The right to education have been established as a basic human right: since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At world level, the Unite...
| May. 21, 2010 | Read more |
According to the different lines of pedagogy, the challenge of today's education, from elementary education to higher education, is to prepare autonomous and creative kids and adolescents, to be capable of adapting to the coming changes. "Let'...
| May. 17, 2010 | Read more |
For me it was an amusing experience to read Vernon Lomax Smith auto biography. He says he was born "on the flat plains of Kansas, January 1, 1927 in the years leading to the Great Depression", and that "like many others of his generation he i...
| May. 16, 2010 | Read more |
Ellen Starr was born in Laona, Illinois. She studied at the Rockford Female Seminary (1877-78) where she met Jane Addams, who years later was to be priced with the Nobel Peace Prize. Their friendship lasted many years. During ten years Ellen w...
| May. 13, 2010 | Read more |
