Education as if Truth Mattered
- Education
- March 2, 2016
Out he pops every Feb. 2 to the music, shouts, and fanfare of thousands of spectators, Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania, the most celebrated prognosticator of weather in the United States. Should Phil cast his shadow on this auspicious date, the …
READ MOREAre America’s public schools falling apart?
The evidence certainly points in that direction.
In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” found historic declines in reading and math scores among American …
READ MORE“Beauty,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”
Whatever we may think of Scruton’s observation, it seems clear our ideas of beauty are at best confused, at worst degraded, …
READ MOREIn Johnny Cash’s version of the gospel song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” the opening chorus goes this way:
…READ MORE“You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner