Why Cutting Music Education Is A Really Bad Idea

“Education secretary Michael Gove’s decision to declare music students ineligible for the new English baccalaureate certificate sends the message that music education is another luxury we can live without. As does cutting the £82.5m a year in funding specifically aimed at providing music education – not to mention the news that one in four councils have already issued redundancies for music teachers.”

Hyperlinking Before The Internet Came Along

“As every student used to know, just choosing and copying passages from one’s own reading is an excellent way of mastering a subject. But in earlier times, when individual books were scarce and expensive, students and preachers, princes and philosophers often turned to digests and compendia – the equivalent of the Encyclopaedia Britannica or “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” – for much of their knowledge.”

The Irony Of Jeff Koons Copyrighting Anything (Does He Get It?)

“Jeff Koons, whose appropriations of popular culture since he was working at a toy shop in the 1980s have ranged from postcards to pornography, is said to be claiming copyright on all representations of balloon dogs.It’s funny, of course, at least if we believe those reports – the idea of an artist who so enthusiastically guzzles up images from the world around him asserting unique ownership of one of them.”