Hi! I'm Dutch and I would like to comment on what you said about the Dutch educational system. In fact it does have a selection procedure, the moment children are in the last year of primary school. Only the more or less top ten percent get go do VWO, which is in fact the only route that kind of guarantees access to University. There is a testing system and for VWO the entry criteria are quite high. The test results are not binding, entry in VWO depends on the advice the primary school teacher gives, but only in rare cases that advice differs from what the test results show. The route HAVO followed by HBO also gives access to University but that is a route only few will finish. There also is a societal Stigma, on the VMBO route, which hardly ever delivers students that continue studying.
Hi I just wrote you almost a page long comment which disappeared when I clicked on "subscribe" before I clicked "Post". Makes me think of a blog I might very possibly write, "UXRANT" or "User Interface Rant"; anyway I'll try to reproduce some of it.
Your articles all seem very interesting. You're only one of 2 people who put Neuroscience among their interests in the WoP student matrix. The other: Shamay Agaron", but I am also am extremely interested in that, and have even written about it somewhat, and also interested in any field that can shed light on "what it is like to be a human being". There is a famous essay "What is it like to be a bat" which is mostly about how unknowable that is. But this makes me think "As if, we know what it is like to be a human being??" because it is like so many things to be a human being that to say what it is like would be an incredible challenge, and maybe a bit absurd even to try.
"Any field that can shed light on ..." includes anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology, linguistics and many more.
You could say I am a learn-it-all who has had 50 adult years and 18 pre-adult years of being one. So you might be curious about that that is like.
And I am curious about you, e.g. why memory loss? And what have you read so far about neuroscience? I could probably make some suggestions for you, and you might have some for me as well. Meanwhile I will read all that you've written here because so far, you seem like an admirable person full of interesting ideas.
Hi! I'm Dutch and I would like to comment on what you said about the Dutch educational system. In fact it does have a selection procedure, the moment children are in the last year of primary school. Only the more or less top ten percent get go do VWO, which is in fact the only route that kind of guarantees access to University. There is a testing system and for VWO the entry criteria are quite high. The test results are not binding, entry in VWO depends on the advice the primary school teacher gives, but only in rare cases that advice differs from what the test results show. The route HAVO followed by HBO also gives access to University but that is a route only few will finish. There also is a societal Stigma, on the VMBO route, which hardly ever delivers students that continue studying.
Hi I just wrote you almost a page long comment which disappeared when I clicked on "subscribe" before I clicked "Post". Makes me think of a blog I might very possibly write, "UXRANT" or "User Interface Rant"; anyway I'll try to reproduce some of it.
Your articles all seem very interesting. You're only one of 2 people who put Neuroscience among their interests in the WoP student matrix. The other: Shamay Agaron", but I am also am extremely interested in that, and have even written about it somewhat, and also interested in any field that can shed light on "what it is like to be a human being". There is a famous essay "What is it like to be a bat" which is mostly about how unknowable that is. But this makes me think "As if, we know what it is like to be a human being??" because it is like so many things to be a human being that to say what it is like would be an incredible challenge, and maybe a bit absurd even to try.
"Any field that can shed light on ..." includes anthropology, evolutionary biology and psychology, linguistics and many more.
You could say I am a learn-it-all who has had 50 adult years and 18 pre-adult years of being one. So you might be curious about that that is like.
And I am curious about you, e.g. why memory loss? And what have you read so far about neuroscience? I could probably make some suggestions for you, and you might have some for me as well. Meanwhile I will read all that you've written here because so far, you seem like an admirable person full of interesting ideas.