Tag: Education

Learning is a Journey: Consequences of a metaphor

by Dominik Lukeš · 2022-06-13

How to read this This will take about 18 minutes to read (at 230 words/min ) but the text is structured to make it easy to jump around and find the key points faster. I tend to go into more detail than most people find necessary. Two reasons to read : Explore a different perspective…

21st Century Educational Voodoo

by Dominik Lukeš · 2012-01-18

Jim Shimabukuro uses Rupert Murdoch's quote “We have a 21st century economy with a 19th century education system” to pose a question of what should 21st Century Education look like ( http://etcjournal.com/2008/11/03/174/ ) "what are the key elements for an effective 21st century model for schools and colleges?". However, what he is essentially asking us…

Language learning in literature as a source domain for generative metaphors about anything

by Dominik Lukeš · 2011-06-01

In my thinking about things human, I often like to draw on the domain of second language learning as the source of analogies. The problem is that relatively few people in the English speaking world have experience with language learning to such an extent that they can actually map things onto it. In fact, in…

The brain is a bad metaphor for language

by Dominik Lukeš · 2011-03-11

Note: This was intended to be a brief note. Instead it developed into a monster post that took me two weeks of stolen moments to write. It's very light on non-blog references but they exist. Nevertheless, it is still easy to find a number of oversimplifications, conflations, and other imperfections below. The general thrust of…

The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professor

by Dominik Lukeš · 2011-02-20

Acclaimed academics have policy agendas just like anybody else. And often they let them interfere with a straightforward critical analysis of their output. The monumental capacity for blindness of highly intelligent people is sometimes staggering. Metaphors and analogies (same thing for metaphor hacking) make thinkers particularly prone to mis-projection blindness . Edward Glaeser , a…

Hacking a metaphor in five steps

by Dominik Lukeš · 2010-07-18

Preliminaries 1. Before you start metaphor hacking you must first accept that you don't have a choice but to speak in some sort of a figurative fashion. Almost nothing worth saying is entirely literal and there are many things whose "literalness" is rooted in metaphor. Look at "I sat in a chair the whole day."…