Tag: Finland

Northern Lights: The Positive Policy Example

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on February 22, 2015

This book is written in the belief that the nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe*, do continue to provide important living proof that […]

Posted in Government | Tagged Denmark, Finland, neoliberalism, Nordic Europe, Norway, policy, Scandanavia, social democracy, Sweden | 4 Comments

A Suggested Route

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 24, 2012

Finnish Lessons by Pasi Sahlberg documents how Finland achieved educational success without going through the arduous and controversial process of implementing competition, school choice, and […]

Posted in Education, Featured, Government, Professional development | Tagged Finland | Leave a Comment

The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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