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Lectures and Wisdom

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

My friend Dan Ausbury provoked my thought processes by contributing a couple of articles from the New York Times published in the past weeks. The first is “Lecture me. Really.”; the second is “Schools for Wisdom”. I believe they are … Continue reading →

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TEDActive 2015: A Record

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I am very late, I know. I was at TEDActive 2015 in mid March and it’s only now that I’m publishing a note of that experience! Still, I also mixed up a video of the trip and conference that I’d … Continue reading →

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What It Really Means to Be a Cultured Person

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Some time ago, Open Culture published an account of the famed collection of the supposed “greatest” books on which to construct a cultured education. It originated at Harvard in 1909: Compiled by Harvard’s president Charles W. Eliot and called at … Continue reading →

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Achala, Destroyer of Ignorance

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Antonio Vantaggiato

In my recent work trip to New York City, I had a chance to visit again the fabled Met Museum. In this latest visit I had an interesting encounter with a mythical fantastic persona: Achala, the Destroyer of Ignorance. I … Continue reading →

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Some more thoughts on MOOCs

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Antonio Vantaggiato

The Los Angeles Review of Books just published a debate on the future of the Humanities and the lion’s share was, of course, the idea of MOOC: MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1 & Part … Continue reading →

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