Tag: learning

Lifelong Learning

Kilgore Forelle

Nobody asked but … Yesterday I started a new term at OLLI at UK.  My first class is a meta-class about how to build an OLLI course.  Btw, OLLI stands for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  My preliminary idea is to do a discussion group centering on classical liberalism, but my mentor believes that using that…

When Did That Happen?

Angel M. Ethell

Send her mail. “Balancing on My Toes” is an original column appearing every other Friday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Angel M. Ethell. Angel lives in the Chicagoland area with her family: sons Teen (13) and Lil G (2) along with their little sister Cassie Pie (dog), and her partner Daddy G. She loves learning new things…

On Learning Skills

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

I think it’s accurate to say that all skills learning is preceded by necessity. This is true for kids who go to school and kids who don’t. In school, learning skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic are necessary to avoid punishment. The need, though artificial, is there and strong enough to motivate learning, hence the…

A Law of Nature

Kilgore Forelle

Nobody asked but … A voluntaryist may frequently talk about the laws of nature in an abstract way, urging that we consider natural law as good and artificial laws (legislation, governmental regulation, rules, authoritarianism, even in many cases traditions and religions) as bad.  The fact is that natural laws are only inevitable, having good or…

Scammer’s Gonna Scam

Skyler J. Collins (Editor)

An “argument” against total free markets is that without regulation by central planning, scammers will get away with their scams and customers would continue to fall victim. Interestingly, in the totally free, albeit illegal, market that is the Internet/bitcoin drug trade, we see customers falling victim to scammers, learning, and then being smarter about where…