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  • Education as if Truth Mattered

    Education as if Truth Mattered15

    The title of this essay, “Education as if Truth Mattered,” is taken from the subtitle of Christopher Derrick’s book, Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education as if Truth Mattered, published in 1977. Derrick’s subtitle was itself borrowed and adapted from the subtitle of E. F. Schumacher’s international bestseller, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered,

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  • Educating to Serve

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    Doom and gloom headlines are a dime a dozen these days, as people in the media continue to fixate on the problems in Washington, crime on the streets, and tragedies abroad. Thus it was that the following headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune caught my eye for the simple reason that it focused on something positive and

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  • Educating the Whole Child

    Educating the Whole Child3

    When I was little, I used to play teacher with my sister. I would write letters on a little chalkboard and sound them out for her in an effort to teach her to read. Later, as a teen, while working at some horse stables, my boss recognized in me a gift for teaching and appointed

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  • Edmund Burke on Manners

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    It took Edmund Burke a very little time to decide that French Revolutionary philosophy posed a massive threat to civilization and social stability throughout Europe. By the end of his life, eight years after the storming of the Bastille, his fears of Jacobin contagion had led him to ask for a secret grave, removed from

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  • Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing

    Edina School Board Settles Lawsuit with Conservative Students, Denies Wrongdoing0

    A school board in Minnesota settled a federal lawsuit filed last week that had accused the district of violating the First Amendment rights of conservative students. Edina High School, which has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the Minnesota’s best schools, came under scrutiny last year after it was revealed the school had implemented

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  • Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’

    Edgar Guest: Remembering ‘The People’s Poet’0

    Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse. Oh my gosh, I’m a poet and don’t know it! If it hadn’t been for a couple good English teachers in high school, I might have never read more than

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