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  • Professor: Voting Should Be Restricted to Those With Knowledge

    Professor: Voting Should Be Restricted to Those With Knowledge0

    Who should hold power: the few or the many? Concentrating power in the hands of a few – in monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy – tends to result in power for personal benefit at the expense of others. Yet in spreading power among the many – as in a democracy – individual votes no longer matter,

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  • Professor: University Students Behave Like Infants

    Professor: University Students Behave Like Infants0

    In June 1962, 59 student activists met in Port Huron, Michigan to draft a manifesto of their core principles. They condemned racism in the United States and the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. Most of all, though, they indicted their own institution, the modern US university, for ignoring and suppressing their voice. Students

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  • Professor: Today’s Students Can’t Even Crack an Egg

    Professor: Today’s Students Can’t Even Crack an Egg0

    It’s been noted before that many members of the up-and-coming generation are clueless when it comes to basic skills like reading a map, writing a letter, and starting a fire. Washington College professor Bill Schindler could add another item to that list: cracking an egg. According to the Washington Post, Schindler discovered this fact by

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  • Professor: The Reason College Students are ‘Helpless’ is…

    Professor: The Reason College Students are ‘Helpless’ is…0

    In the last year or so, a handful of college faculty have been going public about the problems they see in the latest generation of students. First it was the college president who described his students as “day care” kids victimized over every little offense. This viewpoint was seconded by Professor Jonathan Zimmerman, who suggested

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  • Professor: The Perks of One-Room Schools

    Professor: The Perks of One-Room Schools0

    In recent years, many have looked to technology to be the panacea for America’s education problems. Surely, the thinking goes, an iPad in every set of hands will open the floodgates to knowledge that can be personalized to every child. But former public school teacher and current college professor Dr. John Schrock disagrees that looking

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  • Professor: Students Are Becoming Moral Nihilists

    Professor: Students Are Becoming Moral Nihilists0

    The Problem One thing I’ve learned in my years of teaching in the U.S. is that many young Americans are moral relativists. As students in elementary and secondary schools, they were taught that there is no moral fact of the matter. Thus, when people disagree about moral issues, their different perspectives are equally valid. It

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