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  • 5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal

    5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal0

    This year marks the 85th anniversary of the New Deal, the controversial set of programs, public works, and economic reforms that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt undertook to combat America’s Great Depression. Historians commonly contend that the New Deal was pivotal in beating the Great Depression and protecting the American middle class. But how significant was it,

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  • 5 Myths about Emotional Intelligence

    5 Myths about Emotional Intelligence0

    In the past few years Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been widely lauded as the most innovative way to measure smarts since Intelligent Quotient (IQ). Harvard Business Review called EI a “ground-breaking, paradigm-shattering idea.” But what does EI mean? How is it useful?  And what myths or misconceptions have surrounded it? Probably the most succinct definition

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  • 5 Myths about Apprenticeships

    5 Myths about Apprenticeships0

    It’s National Apprenticeship Week in England, and although the Brits are more accepting of the practice than the United States, they still deal with several misconceptions about apprenticeships. Five of these were recently addressed in The Guardian and are abbreviated below: Myth 1: Apprenticeship students are dumb failures. Fact: Instead of being high school dropouts,

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  • 5 Lost Literary Works That Would Be Great to Read

    5 Lost Literary Works That Would Be Great to Read0

    These literary works were written by authors that are recognized as some of the best of all time. Though many titles which bear their names are still popular and in circulation today, each one of these authors composed literary pieces which have been lost to history. Though we may have a historical record of their

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  • 5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common

    5 Logic Fails That Are WAY Too Common0

    In her famous 1947 essay “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy Sayers wrote:     “Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to

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  • 5 Little Known Facts of Apprenticeship

    5 Little Known Facts of Apprenticeship0

    This week marks the first annual National Apprenticeship Week. In recognition of it, here are five facts about apprenticeships that you should know: 1. Apprenticeship was Prevalent in Antiquity According to author Paul Douglas – a University of Chicago professor writing in 1921 – the common notion that apprenticeship began in the medieval age is

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