The Wisdom Called Simulation

The Treasure Called Antibiotics

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

The Rationality of Educating for Wisdom STANOVICH EDUCATING FOR WISDOM

Sternberg’s call for an educational focus on teaching wisdom can be viewed as part of a nascent trend to reorient educational psychology away from exclusive focus on the so-called algorithmic level of analysis. The thrust of his research program on wisdom, like those emphasizing rationality as a critical construct in educational psychology, is on aspects of cognition heretofore backgrounded: th...

Wisdom from the past

The wisdom of storks.

© www.sarawickham.com This article first published 2005 Practising Midwife 8(6):33. Republished with permission for personal use only. Page numbers do not correspond to the original. Please do not reproduce/reprint without prior permission, thank you. The stork is well loved as an image associated with birth and midwives; a good number of midwifery practices in the English-speaking world featur...

Wisdom from the past