@ERozycki

Teacher/writer/researcher: pre-School through K-12 and university (ret.). 45+ yrs. Interests: philosophy, language, economics, psychology, organizations.

 Pennsylvania, USA
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Constructively Discussing Controversy linkedin.com/pulse/construct… via @LinkedIn

Constructively Discussing Controversy

Can race, religion, policy, obscenity and religion be discussed critically and openly? It is often difficult, particularly in a public forum, to separate a concept from the emotional tone which has...

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Unlikely Changes, Despite Technology linkedin.com/pulse/unlikely-… via @LinkedIn

Unlikely Changes, Despite Technology

Who was it that said, "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"? It doesn't matter, because there is abundant evidence that it is not true. The QWERTY keyboard is widely...

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Assistance for Times of Controversy linkedin.com/pulse/assistanc… via @LinkedIn

Assistance for Times of Controversy

We live in a storm of disagreement. On TV, in the newspapers, at public meetings, in private bull sessions, contrary opinions clash continuously.

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The Myth of the Root Cause: How Complex Web Systems Fail @scalyr scalyr.com/blog/the-myth-of-…
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Misconceiving "School Failure"​ linkedin.com/pulse/misconcei… via @LinkedIn

Misconceiving "School Failure"​

Where have all the wise men gone, long time passing, long time ago? Gone to pasture, everyone. When will they ever learn? Way, way back in 2012 Philadelphia’s new Superintendent of Public Schools...

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WIKIPEDIA: Support it Now! linkedin.com/pulse/wikipedia… via @LinkedIn

WIKIPEDIA: Support it Now!

I always recommend Wikipedia to my students (and friends, and colleagues, and ..

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Friendly Advice from They and We linkedin.com/pulse/friendly-… via @LinkedIn
I just donated to @Wikipedia. Support free knowledge! #iloveWikipedia donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_me…
Coordination: Rear Echelons with Front Lines linkedin.com/pulse/coordinat… via @LinkedIn

Coordination: Rear Echelons with Front Lines

Generals usually don’t shoot at enemy soldiers. Stock market traders don’t chop onions.

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Check out my latest article: SLOGANS & POLITICS: threats, promises or misapprehensions linkedin.com/pulse/slogans-p… via @LinkedIn

SLOGANS & POLITICS: threats, promises or misapprehensions

There are many examples ..

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Guaranteeing failure for the sake of low cost and convenience.
Edward G. Rozycki@ERozycki21 Jan 2019
Operational Constraints on Aspiration linkedin.com/pulse/operation…

Operational Constraints on Aspiration

Apply Maslow's Pyramid of Needs to organizations to explain the behavior of individuals within them. Examples from educational institutions are used.

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Moral Hazards in Leadership linkedin.com/pulse/moral-haz… via @LinkedIn

Moral Hazards in Leadership

Buffering, or shielding, is any position assumed or action taken in order to protect decision-makers personally from the consequences of their decisions. Buffering is often both necessary and not...

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What’s Worth Learning?: a curriculum development simulation linkedin.com/pulse/whats-wor… via @LinkedIn

What’s Worth Learning?: a curriculum development simulation

It is important to understand both the logic and the process of defining goals, especially very profound ones. Lacking such, our undertakings tend to wander haphazardly from innovation to innovation,...

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Teaching Your Robot Human Values linkedin.com/pulse/teaching-… via @LinkedIn

Teaching Your Robot Human Values

Before AGI arrives, we need to figure out how to make AI understand, adopt, and retain our goals. -- Max Tegmark (2019) Remember the Socerer’s Apprentice? Like many of AGI (artificial intelligence)...

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Buzzwords, Slogans and Mottos: Propaganda? linkedin.com/pulse/buzzwords… via @LinkedIn

Buzzwords, Slogans & Mottos: Propaganda?

Propaganda is language intended to persuade people to believe in or undertake action, especially when issues of fact are subordinated to the intents of the propagandists. Not infrequently (despite...

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Risks in Schools: are they discounted? linkedin.com/pulse/risks-sch… via @LinkedIn

Risks in Schools: are they discounted?

Driving is even today risky. But it would be a lot riskier if the laws and technical adjustments reducing driving dangers had been successfully resisted by the political and commercial interests that...

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An Unwanted gift, a Value Destroyed? linkedin.com/pulse/unwanted-… via @LinkedIn

An Unwanted gift, a Value Destroyed?

It was a stormy winter on the East Coast. Subzero weather, rare in cities so close to the Atlantic Ocean, threatened frostbite or death to a not-insubstantial population of homeless people living out...

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Teaching Ethics: Do as I say! (Not, as I do.) linkedin.com/pulse/do-i-say-… via @LinkedIn

Do as I say! (Not, as I do.)

For many years I taught a course in ethics to university students. I would get back many a knowing smile when I would remark, as I often did early in the course, that one reason they might have to...

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“You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.” ― Moses Ben Maimon – at Philadelphia, PA
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