Up to now I have been lucky to learn from a series of really wonderful teachers. I have been really lucky and very spoiled.
I have always admired the autodidact. Up to now, I have had limited success in the area of self-education. But I have my whole life to pursue it. It's this or more shopping, drinking and distraction. (There is all too much of all of these things...)
I'd like to use this blog as a notebook for aspects of the process. Notes will be jotted down. Jumbled up and perhaps not making a lot or sense. Plenty of incomplete thoughts. Hopefully the linkrot will not get too bad. This will not be a focused place.
To begin I am taking too many online classes with Coursera.org and the Knight Center.
Virology, Biostatistics, Data Driven Journalism
As a ne'er do well and a procrastinator, I am very far behind in all of these. Defeat might need to be conceded in these cases. But I promise to try, try again.
And there will be other things non-course related, I am sure ...
1 comment:
Empathy--for all of what you said. Except, I have not had wonderful teachers, in person.
In an abstract sense I extol the autodidact to the point of a Form (Plato's).
Is it "bad" for thought to be incomplete?
As I said in the beginning, I share almost all of your thoughts here.
I am taking Beginners Guide to Irrational Behavior on Coursera. I started The Challenges of World Poverty on MIT OCW. There are a few more.
That was many seemingly unorganized thoughts, but they match the first 4 para.
I am trying to use blogger as The Department Store-> see SEP "Common Knowledge."
Keep on, keepin' on! =)
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