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  • Forget School. Just Read.

    Forget School. Just Read.0

    The truth is coming to light. Yesterday I overheard a public school teacher and mother of several children express an honest opinion about education during the coronavirus. Schoolwork varies by teacher and school district, she noted, with some doing almost nothing at all, while others send out huge packets of worksheets. About the latter she

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  • Forget Perfecting Humans, Let’s Just Replace Them

    Forget Perfecting Humans, Let’s Just Replace Them0

    Aldous Huxley famously opens Brave New World with a tour of a human hatchery wherein embryos are conditioned to be a part of certain classes of people, designed for specific tasks. Here’s a tease: ‘Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last,’ continued Mr. Foster, ‘out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into

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  • Forget Mary Poppins: Three Reasons Real-Life Nannies Are Ruining Childhood

    Forget Mary Poppins: Three Reasons Real-Life Nannies Are Ruining Childhood0

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must have heard that Disney is releasing a new Mary Poppins movie. Just in time for the holiday season, Mary Poppins Returns continues the story of the nanny who is “practically perfect in every way.” She swoops into the home of the Banks family and sorts out

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  • Forget Lemonade Stands, These ‘Kidtrepreneurs’ Are Running Million-Dollar Companies

    Forget Lemonade Stands, These ‘Kidtrepreneurs’ Are Running Million-Dollar Companies0

    When most of us think of child entrepreneurs, our minds conjure up pictures of neighborhood lemonade stands and summer lawn mowing gigs. But in the modern marketplace, today’s “kidtrepreneurs” aren’t just running small-scale businesses anymore—they are well on their way to building commercial empires. Some are so successful, their parents have even had the rare

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  • Forget Immigrants. Technology is Killing Jobs

    Forget Immigrants. Technology is Killing Jobs0

    The elevator attendant asking you what floor you want. The gas station service attendant wanting to know whether you would like your oil checked. The switchboard operator inquiring who you would like to call. These are sounds you do not hear anymore. Add to that the whirring sound of the seamstress, and soon, the voice

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  • Forever Free: The Importance of Literacy

    Forever Free: The Importance of Literacy0

    “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury One way to get people to stop reading books is to fail to teach them to read proficiently. Permit me to digress from that idea for a moment. Recently a correspondent sent me a link to

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