Schooling – Page 4 – Frank Brown Cloud

On value claims and the popular press.

Normally I try to make these essays positive. I read a lot of books — because I’m writing, knowing things is part of my job, which means I have to read a lot of nonfiction, and appreciating beautiful language is part of my job, so I have to read a lot of fiction — but…

March 4, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Psychology, Schooling

moral facts, ny times, nytimes, value claims

On how friends don’t let friends study alone.

I often felt frustrated while reading William Deresiewicz’s “Excellent Sheep.” And not, I imagine, in the way he intended. Because, sure, the crumby stuff he was discussing — perpetuated aristocracy masquerading as meritocracy, the conflation of a person’s income with their value, etc. — is frustrating. But I imagine that most people who are moderately…

January 4, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Psychology, Racial oppression, Schooling

college, Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep, race, Steele, studying, Whistling Vivaldi

On free will, a bit, but mostly on graduate school and Rob Peace.

I’m supposed to be writing a post about free will. And I did start writing it. Began something like this: Given that my motivation for writing these posts is that K told me I needed to, to explain some of the research I’m going for my project, it might be fair to wonder why I…

November 22, 2014

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Psychology, Schooling

free will, grad school, Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace