13 MAR 2014 by ideonexus

 Phased Retirement

We should establish a new concept of retirement: phased retirement or part-time retirement. This would permit those persons who want to work and are able to do so to phase into total retirement over a period of years. Working part time or part year and “retired” part of the time, they could engage in new learning ventures in an educational environment, or in travel and group discussions. Educational institutions should take the leadership in fashioning different kinds of programs for...
Folksonomies: retirement planning
Folksonomies: retirement planning
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Important concept.

25 JUL 2011 by ideonexus

 Science Must Continually Renew Itself

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve forever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
Folksonomies: science classics tradition
Folksonomies: science classics tradition
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Great advancement does not come from perpetually building on old ideas, but by rebuilding the old in a new light of understanding.