Forgetting Cervantes in Spain (El Pais)
“All the recent Spanish governments have been contemptuous of culture, but the current one is downright aggressive towards it” - Arturo Pérez Reverte
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02, 2016
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01, 2016
Medicine, neurology, and Sherlock (BBC)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor from Edinburgh, teaches new doctors about the mind.
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09, 2015
Stop reading: Duke Huan and Pien the Wheelwright
How can we learn from the writings of dead sages?
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07, 2015
Philosophy study — for kids — enhances reading, writing, and math skills (Educational Endowment Foundation, July 2015)
Teaching children as young as nine and ten to have philosophical discussions around topics like truth, fairness and knowledge can improve their progress in maths and reading by an average of two months.