August 2011

  • Studenţii nu citesc pentru că elevii nu citesc. Cum îi îndreptăm spre lectură? Una dintre sarcinile fundamentale ale învăţământului preuniversitar este aceea de a-i învăţa pe elevi să citească, desigur, nu doar  în sensul că-i alfabetizează, ci că le deşteaptă interesul şi le deschide gustul pentru literatură, pentru marile cărţi, cele care dezvăluie orizonturile infinite

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  • The New Martyrs

    A pair of animal lovers entered a kennel for 30 hours. For a $ 5 donation, visitors could take them for a brief “walk (details HERE). In the same period, Clayton Hodges, 15, locked himself inside a dog cage for 10 hours on Friday outside the Canadian Tire store in Abbotsford. Hodges raised more than

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  • Remembering Norway’s victims, I strongly recommend Chris Hedges’ article on TruthDig.com. (26 July, 2011) Fundamentalism Kills The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and

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  • Plăceri la înălțime

    …nu e niciun efect vizual, e o pură realitate: Sky Park, Singapore.

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  • Surviving the future?

    Becoming a simple mechanism in the fabric of our existence, considering the gospel of progress, part of  our present omnipotent techno-soteriology, and using the predictive simulations of computers (instead God’s holograms or “prophecies”, in biblical terminology), is good to listen, critically, some warnings and promises of utopian futurism: death of nature, supremacy of technology, control of birth,

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