{"id":272,"date":"2006-06-03T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2006-06-03T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T07:37:11","slug":"if-you-dont-read-anything-else-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#8217;t read anything else today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;read <a href=\"http:\/\/halfanhour.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/on-teaching-being-dead.html\">this from Stephen Downes<\/a>. It distills a lot of <i>my<\/i> raggedy thoughts on &#8216;teaching&#8217; into a potent draught. Many memorable bits, but I wish I&#8217;d said this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I gave up arguing during my abortive PhD, when I realized that there was no point to argumentation. I have since then tried to live what I believe, and when people would ask, to explain why I believed it. This allowed me a certain detachment, because it didn&#8217;t matter whether they agreed with me, what mattered is that my explanation was true and honest and forthright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;read this from Stephen Downes. It distills a lot of my raggedy thoughts on &#8216;teaching&#8217; into a potent draught. Many memorable bits, but I wish I&#8217;d said this one: I gave up arguing during my abortive PhD, when I realized that there was no point to argumentation. I have since then tried to live what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}