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    Annie Holmquist

    Annie Holmquist served as the editor of Intellectual Takeout from 2018 to 2022. When not writing or editing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and time with family and friends.

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  • Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools Are Creating ‘Empty’ Children

    Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools Are Creating ‘Empty’ Children0

    In the early 1990s, New York Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto, threw in the towel on teaching with his famous I Quit, I Think  letter to the Wall Street Journal. Gatto’s reason for quitting was simple. He could no longer justify teaching “a curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect

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  • Architecture and Its Secret Vibes of Truth and Value

    Architecture and Its Secret Vibes of Truth and Value3

    I recently splurged and visited Mackinac Island with a few friends. The island, located between the upper and lower peninsula of Michigan, is perhaps best known for its automobile ban, relegating all traffic to foot, horse, or bike. Perhaps because of this ban, Mackinac Island functions as a type of time capsule, with beautiful homes,

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  • Emotion-Based Schooling Is Not the Education Our Children Need

    Emotion-Based Schooling Is Not the Education Our Children Need1

    To mark the end of the school year, Gallup enlisted students in grades 5-12 to rank their schools in a June report card. With an average grade of B-, the overall score isn’t so bad. Looking closer at the individual categories, however, tells a different story. As the chart below shows, the higher ranking categories were in

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  • The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers

    The Amazing Maturity of the Young Declaration Signers2

    When we think of Independence Day and the men who affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, it’s easy to lump them all together as wizened old men. But while some – such as 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin – were certainly getting up in age, many others were remarkably young. Consider the following list of

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