17 January 2009
Cleverness and success
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It is starting to be admitted that a high proportion of the cleverest do not make it, in the sense of becoming members of the immensely expa...
10 January 2009
Outliers
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Another book ( Outliers – The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell) has been published on how there is no such thing as genius or ‘a born s...
04 January 2009
Academic training
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To revert to the question of why everyone has always opposed me. Well, unfortunately, as it seems, I represent a number of things that the ...
21 December 2008
Obstructions and machinations
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copy of a letter to an academic You asked why the entire academic population, under the direction of Rosalind Heywood, wanted to ensure tha...
26 November 2008
Penalising foresight and determination
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The state pension is to rise by the (unrealistically low) official rate of inflation. ‘Pension credit’ is also to increase, and the Chancel...
14 November 2008
The Oxford media
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Copy of a letter sent several weeks ago by my colleague Dr Charles McCreery to a presenter on Radio Oxford, to which he has had no reply. I ...
08 November 2008
Children and Mill’s Principle of Liberty
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As quite a young child I was under the impression that it was a basic principle of accepted morality and legislation that an individual'...
07 October 2008
Wittgenstein's Papierkorb
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The following fragments have been found in Wittgenstein's wastepaper basket ( Papierkorb ): * What does a person mean when he says he is...
29 September 2008
Accidental associations
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copy of a letter The last time I met you, you asked why I went to the Society for Psychical Research if I was not interested in what they d...
23 September 2008
The Establishment and I
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I recently read a definition of Establishment as ‘a group of people who hold power in a society and dominate its institutions’ ( Daily Mail ...
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