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  • What Harvard Neglected in 1982

    What Harvard Neglected in 19820

    Going through some old, family documents this week, I stumbled upon a clipping from “Harvard Magazine” that included an address given by Reverend Peter J. Gomes of Harvard University to the school’s graduating seniors in 1982. It’s a heart-felt and lively address, which is reproduced below. What stands out most is that Rev. Gomes recognized that

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  • What Happens When You’re an Intelligent Stay-at-Home Mom?

    What Happens When You’re an Intelligent Stay-at-Home Mom?0

    The life of the “stay-at-home mom” is under constant scrutiny. Her personal choice to not take a full-time job outside the home, focusing her energies and talents on raising her children and keeping her house instead, seems antithetical to the world’s definition of success. As a result, the world provides all manner of explanations for

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  • What Happens When You Think

    What Happens When You Think0

    Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a French philosopher known for his adherence to the philosophy of the medieval Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain had a lot of interesting thoughts. One of them comes from his book Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, a book

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  • What Happens When You Ask Unschoolers ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’

    What Happens When You Ask Unschoolers ‘What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?’2

    • November 8, 2017

    My daughter is a baker. When people ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, she responds breezily: “A baker, but I already am one.” You see, with unschooling there is no postponement of living and doing. There is no preparation for some amorphous future, no working toward something unknown. There is

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  • What Happens When Everyone Gets a ‘Free’ Lunch? Money Problems

    What Happens When Everyone Gets a ‘Free’ Lunch? Money Problems0

    A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in

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  • What Happens When an MBA Student Raised in Communist China Reads Hayek

    What Happens When an MBA Student Raised in Communist China Reads Hayek0

    Imagine being born during the bloody Cultural Revolution in China and growing up in a country with little economic or personal freedom. Few Chinese citizens had the knowledge that human rights are not granted by government, and those few who knew could not say. Few knew that government is not the source of economic progress;

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