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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

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    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

    Educating to Serve1

    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

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    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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