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  • Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers

    Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers3

    In the news, we often hear distressing statistics about how few books Americans read in a given year. As a result, we tend to be ecstatic if people simply read at all. But intellectual growth requires more than that; it requires that one becomes not only a reader, but a mature reader. In his famous

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  • Schools: Soul-Crushing on Purpose?

    Schools: Soul-Crushing on Purpose?5

    It’s no secret that academic outputs in schools across the nation are pretty abysmal. In fact, things have grown so bad that now it seems we’re praising schools that manage to achieve roughly 50% proficiency. Such allegedly stellar achievement was recently recognized by an article in the Washington Examiner. The article highlighted the schools on America’s military bases–attended

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  • Schools Use Empty Classrooms for Day Care to Double Charge Parents

    Schools Use Empty Classrooms for Day Care to Double Charge Parents0

    Normally when a business shuts its doors, it doesn’t still get to charge its customers for a product they can no longer access. It certainly doesn’t get to charge its customers twice for the privilege. Yet, that’s exactly what we’re seeing from some public school districts. They refuse to open their doors for in-person learning

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  • Schools Shouldn’t Replace Classic Lit with ‘Young Adult’ Fiction

    Schools Shouldn’t Replace Classic Lit with ‘Young Adult’ Fiction1

    In his homily last Sunday—the first Sunday of Advent—my pastor brought up Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story, A Christmas Carol. He looked around at the young people in the congregation and said, “I’m sure you all read that in school, right?” I sat there thinking to myself, “Don’t bet on it.” Schools seem to be

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  • Schools Renormalize Raising Adults

    Schools Renormalize Raising Adults0

    Many of us are old enough to remember how childhood used to be. Our afternoons were spent outside playing with the neighborhood kids—no adults or cell phones in sight. Sometimes we got hurt, with occasional scraped knees or hurt egos, but we worked it out. We always knew we could go home. We had paper

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  • Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?

    Schools Once Taught Biblical Literacy. Should They Do So Again?0

    Over the weekend, columnist Christine Emba commented on an interesting typo from The Wall Street Journal. As Emba explains, the WSJ quoted Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the prophet Moses carried water from the country Iraq, rather than a regular rock, thus convoluting the famous miracle from Israel’s days in the wilderness. The mistake naturally

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