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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 the Man-Hating Feminists Have Sons

    What Happens When the Man-Hating Feminists Have Sons2

    Motherhood influencer Paige Connell recently posted a video explaining what she does to keep her son from “grow[ing] up to be an a**hole.” Teaching her daughters common courtesy is less of a concern as “girls are generally people pleasers,” she says, but she is especially concerned that her son develop these traits. One way she

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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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