The term “barbarian” gets thrown around a lot, including by our Intellectual Takeout authors in their blogs. In general, “barbarian” is the generic term used by Westerners for someone who do not conform to the dominant culture’s standards of civilization and, in some cases, seeks to actively undermine them. Many scholars have argued that we
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Most parents and taxpayers don’t know it, but most schools don’t know what they’re teaching. I can’t count the number of times I have been talking to a public school teacher and they will say to me, “Well, I’ve got to go now and do my lesson planning.” “Lesson planning?” I will say. “Why do
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The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state of Athens is considered the birthplace of intellectual freedom and democracy – lasting legacies that helped to mold the ideas that have influenced the development
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At a recent breakfast for reporters, U.S. Secretary of Education John King was asked for his opinion on homeschooling. The Secretary’s most worrisome concern about the movement? A lack of socialization. Education Week reports: “[King] worries that homeschoolers may not get the kind of interaction with other adults or much experience with their peers, ‘unless
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I was giving a talk at Florida Gulf Coast University the other night near Fort Myers when I noticed a flyer on the door of the lecture hall. The sign (I wish I had gotten a picture now) read: “PARENT FREE ZONE.” I chuckled at first, thinking it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke to
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Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford professor of Professor of European Studies, recently published a magisterial book, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. We hear many diatribes for free speech (and some against); Ash supplies background knowledge about how the internet changes the speech issues we face and what we can do to protect free speech in
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