Students are not internally motivated, so we should bribe them to do well.
According to Blogger, this is my 500th post. To mark the occasion, I'm asking my huge audience for feedback. What have been your favorite and least favorite posts? Should I quit blogging completely? Should my posts be longer or stay the same length?
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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6 comments:
Congratulations!
Good blog. Updated frequently enough to be worth checking and not too often to keep up with. It really feels like we're getting the best of the articles you read.
I haven't been reading since the beginning, but my favorite article of the ones I've read is 'Using graph theory to transplant kidneys.' I don't have a least favorite, but I'm less likely to read the political opinion articles.
For the future, I am in favor of more opinions of the poster to go along with the articles.
I agree with David, this is my favorite blog, it is just right. I like the application of math to everyday things (like kidney transplants, well not every day )
Congrats on sticking with this and making so many posts, may you have thousands of readers!
keep up the great work. the breadth of topics you consider each week and the sheer "interestingness" of them all continue to fascinate me.
one suggestion would be to include more personal opinions or anecdotes.
Give up now...and send all your readers to my blog...mwuahahaha j/k
I enjoy the reading of your articles that you post. I only wish that as others have asked for...a bit more nerzhin commentary. Also I wish that you posted every day. Sometimes twice a day..
Actually I've enjoyed your blogging style so much that I've begun to incorporate some of your techniques...a link to an article + a quote from the article + a little extra commentary.
It's really an ideal setup for people like me who want to be a writer but really aren't that good at it.
i was thinking about your post title "Kids don't want to learn so we should bribe them". At first I thought, "well we're actually not bribing them"...because a bribe means that we were giving them some good in exchange for something given by their authority that we couldn't legally get otherwise.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was really true. We are bribing them.
We want them to be educated so that they can get good jobs so that when we retire their taxes will support our country i.e. us. They have the option to learn or not to learn, and we can't legally make them learn. Thus, exchanging good for their learning is indeed a bribe.
Everyone else is right. This blog is solid gold. I would like to see more pics of you and your girlfriend... just kidding (I mean, I do, but this is probably not the place for it). Hee hee hee
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