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  • Education is Not Magic

    Education is Not Magic0

    • June 19, 2015

    Americans have traditionally expected more of education than it was capable of delivering by itself. In recent decades, many have looked to education as the means of solving poverty, inequality, and a number of other woes that plague our society. Of course, details of how education will do this are usually omitted. In his important 1965 essay “Education

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  • Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’

    Education Is Not About Your ‘Lived Reality’0

    Three years ago, I was smeared before all the students, professors, and staff members of Providence College, where I had taught since 1990. That was some 5,000 people. The authors of the smear were the president of the college, whose final term expires next spring, and the vice president, who will be taking over for

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  • EDUCATION is a Privilege

    EDUCATION is a Privilege0

    It’s undeniable that today’s education system has problems. Evidences of declining academics and behavior are everywhere in the schools.  But coming face to face with this reality leaves us with a big question: what do we do to right the ship? Furthermore, what does good education look like? Author and educator David Hicks provides an

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  • Education in America Before the Education System

    Education in America Before the Education System1

    Before America’s public education system was created around 1840, the vast majority of Americans were illiterate and walked around with dirt on their faces.  At least, that seems to be the impression shared by most people today. But it turns out that education, like nature, abhors a vacuum. In the decades after the American Revolution—much

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  • Education Eclipsed: Unnecessary School Closures Breed Anxious Children

    Education Eclipsed: Unnecessary School Closures Breed Anxious Children1

    A total eclipse crossed the country this week in a display of natural wonder. Rather than seize the opportunity for an engaging science lesson, hundreds of school districts with several hundred thousand students decided to close for the day, many citing safety concerns that students might accidentally look at the eclipse without proper eye protection. Even worse

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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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