Some Thoughts concerning Education

Some Thoughts of Medical Education

'tth atl01) as "that most boring subject", I have succumbed to the temptation to make natu Subject of this address. I have done so for three reasons. Firstly because I have s0rne y ^een interested by, and involved in, medical education for many years and tunif VVo years ago the trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation gave me the opporfoy y spending three months studying Medical Education in the ...

Some thoughts on education and political priorities

Although we understand some systems well enough to make precise or statistical predictions, most interesting systems whether physical, mental, cultural, or virtual are complex, nonlinear, and have properties that emerge from feedback between many interactions. Exhaustive searches of all possibilities are impossible. Unfathomable and unintended consequences dominate. Problems cascade. Complex sy...

Some Thoughts and Afterthoughts on Medical Education

Several months ago the State University of New York conducted a Symposium on General Education which was designed as an opportunity for the exchange of ideas among representatives of the many constituent units of the University. In response to a request to present a statement on general education in relation to medical education I prepared a short paper which, I thought, contained a representat...

Some thoughts on robotics for education

In this paper we formulate some thoughts about use of robotics in education, in particular at college and university level. We argue that, although robotics is used in many universities and courses, its advantages are not necessarily as obvious as we would like to believe. There is an apparent need for analysis that would provide more convincing data supporting use of robotics for educational p...

Some thoughts on an Inclusive Higher Education system