Welcome to Fulcrum Features

Here we have articles, random rants, and general philosophizing. Enjoy.

A Case for the Public Domain is a post I contributed to a roundtable discussion at SiliconValley.com. It makes a case for putting all intellectual property that is created with government funding into the public domain.

A Matter of Combustion covers the main ideas for an analogy about preparing materials and experiences to encourage natural learning.

The Mountain Analogy is still a work in progress. It has something of a surprise ending so I won't say more about it here. Comments are welcome, just send them to msouth@fulcrum.org.

Excuse Me, But... asks why playing is good when you're little and bad when you're in school.

The Fourth Virtue is an essay that proposes an extension to the three canonical virtues of the programmer.

Radically Rethinking Education was our home page for a while. It's about why we think it's necessary to rethink education, and why we think that rethinking needs to be radical.

Project OSPRAE talks about how open source principles and resources, applied to education, will make a fundamental, permanent, and eventually world-sweeping difference in education.

An Educated Guess puts forth two conjectures about mathematics education reform, exploring a possibly inevitable convergence of current reform efforts and a somewhat radical ideology of education.

Are you a prute? asks you to think about whether traditional education does anyone any good.