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  • Professor: Relativism Destroying Our Esteem for Education

    Professor: Relativism Destroying Our Esteem for Education0

    The education system gets a lot of flack these days: students are falling behind internationally; students don’t know history; students don’t know how to engage in rational discourse, and on it goes. But while these issues are very real and concerning, they are really only symptoms of a greater problem. In his 1956 essay, Education

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  • Professor: Reality Humans Experience is an Illusion

    Professor: Reality Humans Experience is an Illusion0

    What we observe with our eyes is real. Humans base much of their conception of reality on this basic principle. But what if we’re wrong? What if what we’re seeing is what we need to believe rather than what really is? According to Donald Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California,

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  • Professor: Our ‘Inventory of Knowledge’ is Being Lost

    Professor: Our ‘Inventory of Knowledge’ is Being Lost0

    Have you ever wondered how the American Founders were able to spew forth such wisdom and establish a new country at such young ages? I have. The mere fact that 10 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were under the age of 35 blows my mind. But as I learned recently, these men

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  • Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares

    Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares0

    Last fall, university president Dr. Everett Piper made headlines when he warned students that college was not intended to be a day care, but “a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.” The realization that many of today’s university students have not grown up has caught on with the general

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  • Professor: My Students Can’t Handle Opposing Political Views Anymore

    Professor: My Students Can’t Handle Opposing Political Views Anymore1

    As a college teacher, I try to listen to all points of view, and I want students to feel they can speak up in class to express their own thoughts, and to challenge anything I say in class. I tell them, “Don’t believe anything I tell you. This is college and you should be thinking

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  • Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed

    Professor: Children’s Imaginations Are Being Destroyed0

    Driving by a house with several children romping around in the front yard wrestling one another or running around in absurd dress-up costumes almost never fails to make me smile. Unfortunately, those smiles are few and far between because this scene now rarely occurs. Where has the imagination of children gone? Providence College professor Anthony

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