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Big Mistakes: A Stock Picker’s Education
Big Mistakes, a book about costly blunders committed by Wall Street investors, makes this much clear: for author Michael Batnick, school was a terrible place to go for an education. Batnick does deliver on the subtitle’s promise: “The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments,” with details on the worst trades by, for example, Benjamin Graham, …
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Already There
One of the difficulties of diagnosing contemporary US culture is that we lack perspective. Here’s a helpful ichthyological fable I heard somewhere: Two young little fish are swimming around and they come across a big older fish who asks, “How’s the water, boys?” The little guys are unsure of how to respond and they swim …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]