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  • Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach

    Former Teacher: 8 Negative Lessons Today’s Schools Teach1

    Of all the teachers who enter the profession each year, nearly 17 percent of them will leave the classroom behind within five years. So when a teacher sticks around for almost 30 years, you have to admit that he is probably pretty experienced and knows what he’s talking about. Such is the case with John

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

    Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools Are Creating ‘Empty’ Children1

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

    Former Teacher: 7 Ways Schools are Creating ‘Empty’ Children2

    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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  • Former Teacher Explains 7 Signs of an Educated Person

    Former Teacher Explains 7 Signs of an Educated Person19

    Is your child getting a good education? If asked that question, many would likely reply – somewhat indignantly even – “He goes to a good school. He gets good grades. Of course he’s well educated!” But well-educated is not the same as well-schooled. And sadly, most of what we call education today is actually schooling,

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  • Former Syracuse Professor Explains Why the University Should Not Be a Shopping Mall

    Former Syracuse Professor Explains Why the University Should Not Be a Shopping Mall0

    As a colleague of mine recently observed, today’s high school students seem to be much more prone to choosing college alternatives than they were a few years ago. Such observation is not a figment of imagination, but a reality across the globe, a fact which various sources confirm. The first source is a poll out

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  • Former Stanford Provost: ‘The Threat from Within’

    Former Stanford Provost: ‘The Threat from Within’0

    Stanford News recently featured an excerpt from former Trustee John Etchemendy about the challenges higher education is facing. He begins by arguing, Universities are a fundamental force of good in the world. At their best, they mine knowledge and understanding, wisdom and insight, and then freely distribute these treasures to society at large. Theirs is

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