Manual for Civilization
One of my favorite organizations is the Long Now. The reason for this is their focus on one simple mission that I strongly believe in. Their focus is on long term thinking and they don’t have the politics and over intellectualization like many other groups I’m familiar with. Their singular focus is on helping [...]
Monthly archives for January, 2014
Manual of Civilization
Manual for Civilization
One of my favorite organizations is the Long Now. The reason for this is their focus on one simple mission that I strongly believe in. Their focus is on long term thinking and they don’t have the politics and over intellectualization like many other groups I’m familiar with. Their singular focus is on helping [...]
Modernizing the Education System
There has been much reported on the problems with our education system: that students in the United States are lagging behind many of their peers in other countries in mathematics, science and reading. The typical response is to look at class sizes or at student performance on a per teacher basis to try and find solutions to these issues. The [...]
Report: Jan 14 Board of Directors Vir...
to recap the virtual meeting, The board adopted the following ‘edicts’ and ‘motions’
(adopted) edict 1.0 – The vision of the Pratoriate Foundation will be stated as thus: “Providing a sustainable, multi-located, searchable repository for personal and social development to help create a better world through [...]