Since the days of Socrates, the best learning has often begun with a great question. That’s why FurtherLearning organizes each course around a core QUESTion.
Look at our Course Board to see what QUESTions spark your interest. The QUESTions are crowdsourced from our members; and the Course Board serves as forum for course ideas. So let us know what you think.
COURSE BOARD
Economics
Why are some nations wealthy and others poor? (aka updating Adam Smith)
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How do economists think? Why does this matter for making major decisions for society?
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How can the U.S. compete in the world economy?
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Why don't most high school & college students learn any corporate history at all? What difference does it make?
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What promotes economic mobility for people?
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History
Why didn't China discover America?
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Why have North and South America developed so differently?
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What was I supposed to learn in Western Civ class?
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Can I get a grasp of how my life fits into the sweep of world history?
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How did a complete lack of understanding of bacteria and viruses shape history?
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How does failure to understand historical context lead to dangerous misunderstandings?
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What shapes history? What shapes our understanding of it?
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How do historians think? Why?
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Biography
What were the strengths & weaknesses of President X? (Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, JFK, Reagan, etc.) [MULTIPLE COURSES]
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What were the strengths & weaknesses of the founding fathers? [As GROUP or SEPARATELY, e.g., Hamilton]
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Steve Jobs: Strengths? Weaknesses? Inseparable strength-weaknesses?
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Can understanding the life of Leonardo da Vinci enrich my life?
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Civics
How can I boil down someone's argument and separate sense from nonsense?
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Do democracies always work?
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What happens in non-democracies?
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Is/was America exceptional?
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What happened to teaching civics, anyway?
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Law
What are the most important things they teach you in law school?
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Just how important is the rule of law?
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Music
Can non-musical people become musical later in life?
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Can you learn an instrument for the first time later in life?
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Art
What's the point of painting when there is photography?
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Writing
How can I learn to write a memoir?
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How can I learn to write better in general?
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Is it fun to actually understand grammar? (Resurrecting the lost art of diagramming sentences?)
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Communication
How can I cope with information overload?
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Can I become a better public speaker?
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Can I become a better story teller?
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How can I do an oral history project?
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Literature
What's so great about Shakespeare?
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Can poetry make my life better?
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How can I appreciate good writing more?
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Languages
Can I recall the Latin I learned in high school? Why bother?
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Health & Medicine
Does the brain age? Why? Can we do anything about it?
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Can you really manage your weight?
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How can you take care of your body as you age?
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Is yoga a passing fad or a persistent trend?
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How do doctors think?
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Science
Can a deep understanding of some Chemistry principles enrich my life?
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What's new in Biology? What will it mean for life as we know it?
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How can I grok the universe?
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Why does anything exist?
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What's happening to the global environment?
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What really is magnetism? Why should I care?
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Mathematics
How can I avoid being fooled by statistics?
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Are there all kinds of interesting and understandable areas of math that they never teach you in school?
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How does big data work? (e.g., How does Google do it?)
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Technology
What's blockchain? Why is it important?
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How does Artificial Intelligence work? What could it mean?
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What could the Internet of Things become?
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Religion & Spirituality
What do the world's major religions have in common?
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Will understanding Buddhism do anything for me?
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How can I make sense of the Bible? How can I (finally?) read it?
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Are some "non-religious" activities really a lot like religions?
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What exactly are Christian ethics? Do they matter?
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Is Stoicism relevant today?
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Is Epicurianism relevant today?
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How do religions evolve?
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Are science and religion in conflict? Or in harmony?
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Travel
How can I prepare to make the most of my upcoming trip to Rome? (Greece, China, Africa, India, Vietnam, etc.)
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