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  • Are Schools Squelching the Intelligence of American Children?

    Are Schools Squelching the Intelligence of American Children?0

    It’s no secret that American students are sadly falling behind. One look at the Nation’s Report Card tells us that not even half of students at the 4th, 8th, or 12th grade levels are able to achieve proficiency in math, reading, history, or any number of other subjects. To an outsider, such scores would lead

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  • Are Schools Seeking to Raise Social Justice Warriors?

    Are Schools Seeking to Raise Social Justice Warriors?0

    Famed educator Maria Montessori once said: “Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the

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  • Are Schools Replacing Parents?

    Are Schools Replacing Parents?0

    The last few years have seen a good deal of conversation on education standards, spawned in large part by the arrival of Common Core. But according to the education site Chalkbeat, some states are instituting standards in far more than reading and math: “Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of

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  • Are Schools Rediscovering the Need for Philosophy Curriculum?

    Are Schools Rediscovering the Need for Philosophy Curriculum?0

    Last week we took a look at the curriculum recommendations which Ben Franklin laid out for America’s early grammar schools. These schools consisted of six classes (a.k.a. “grades”) geared toward boys between the ages of 8 and 16 which taught everything from English grammar to classic literature. One of Franklin’s more surprising recommendations was the

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  • Are Schools Promoting Creativity… or Obedience?

    Are Schools Promoting Creativity… or Obedience?0

    In an article for The Guardian, an executive for international marketing and public relations company Ogilvy & Mather made the observation that: “Creativity is the most powerful competitive advantage a business can have. Companies need to fizz with new ideas and fresh thinking. But there’s a problem – there just aren’t enough fizzy people around.”

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  • Are Schools Making Us ‘Intellectually Dependent’?

    Are Schools Making Us ‘Intellectually Dependent’?1

    Not long ago, I wrote about a brief essay called A Message to Garcia. The essay, written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard, explained how President McKinley instructed a gentleman named Rowan to deliver a letter to General Garcia in Cuba during the Spanish American War. As Hubbard explains, the unique thing about this incident was

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