Skills vs facts

There's an ongoing war between the people (mostly, but not exclusively, on the left) who think that education should just teach skills and the people (mostly, but not exclusively, on the right) who think that it's important that it should teach bodies of fact like history and physics as well. My sympathies are roughly 50/50: …

Supervillanelle

You fools! My shrink ray will destroy you all! They said I was insane and... here we are! Would anybody like to call me "small"? On Captain Wonderful you're going to call? Here's that betighted cretin, in this jar! You fools! My shrink ray will destroy you all! You used to mock my height, you …

Should we ban degrees?

What would happen if we stopped universities from awarding degrees - arranged things so that you could still go to university, you'd get the teaching and everything else, but there would be no exams and no automatic way to signal at the end that you'd done anything other than turned up? Obviously, assume a few rounds …