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    "More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. There are over 30 million people today qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. During thenext decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). Related post.

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    "When we voyage, and I mean voyage anywhere, not just in canoes, but in our mind, new doors of knowledge will open. and that's what this voyage is all about . . . it's about taking on a challenge to learn. If we inspire even one of our children to do the same, then we will have succeeded." "Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (Polynesian Voyaging Society and Georganne Nordstrom, "Nainoa Thompson: In Search of History," Horizons, 1999).

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    "The alternative to envisioning the future is getting stuck in the present. At the moment, we are squandering resources, attempting to use new technologies to solve the problems of school-as-it-is instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in Transforming Learning Through Technology: Policy Roadmaps for the Nation's Governors, Milken Family Foundation, 1999).

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    "I am appealing to all of us who have escaped cognitive death by school -- who are the survivors here -- to work on modifying it. For me, the challenge is not to end school, but to change it completely and radically . . . . So I keep fighting in the hope of putting school on the level of its time. . . . We learned before teaching. . . . The name ["school"] doesn't matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's "The Future of School," transcripts of a late-1980s Sao Paulo, Brazil, TV broadcast).

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Qlique Paying College Students to Post

Posted on April 8, 2008 by jimskcc

Harrison Hoffman (Webware): “The social networking site, Qlique, is currently running an ad on Facebook, targeted at college students, offering an hourly wage in exchange for creating content for the site. In order to try to set themselves apart from other social networks, Qlique’s main feature asks users to write stories about things that are happening in their lives. The Facebook ad offers a $10/hour wage for college students to write these stories in order to build up content on the site. Essentially, Qlique is paying students to use the service like it would be used if there was a genuine interest in it.” (“Social networking site Qlique is paying college students to use it,” 6 Apr 2008)

Comment: Paying students to post? Non-sustainable. Against the grain. Asinine. -js 4.8.08

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