Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, by James Axtell. Princeton University Press, 2016 Axtell starts his history with Cambridge and Oxford (“Oxbridge”), with English colleges mainly training men for the clergy. Later they became places where the aristocracy sent their sons so that they could find jobs as diplomats or other ( Read more... )

Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn, by Cathy N. Davidson. Viking 2011This is a very interesting book, but I feel the title is a little misleading. It’s not so much that brain science will transform how we do things; it’s more that technology will. In a world where the boundaries between ( Read more... )