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Daniel Lattier

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  • Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men

    Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2

    A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example.   Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want

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  • People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics

    People Should Be Able to Calmly Discuss Politics0

    There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about

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  • A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?

    A Warning about Islam from the Last Pope?0

    • July 26, 2016

    A large part of the controversy between Islam and the West boils down to scriptural hermeneutics.   “Scriptural hermeneutics” refers to the lens that a person, group, or religion uses to interpret their respective scriptures. Most Christians, for instance, hold to some sort of theory of “divine inspiration” in regard to how the Bible was

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  • Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’

    Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’0

    In my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be

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