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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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  • 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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