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  • How Good Is Your Mathematical Reasoning?

    How Good Is Your Mathematical Reasoning?0

    • July 28, 2016

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  • Can we stop making terrorists and shooters famous?

    Can we stop making terrorists and shooters famous?0

    When 19-year-old Adel K and his fellow jihadist entered the Eglise St. Etienne in a Normandy town on Tuesday armed with knives, they could be sure of one thing: whatever happened, they would be famous. The mere attempt to kill a priest as he finished celebrating Mass would get them world headlines since they were Muslims and

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  • Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men

    Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2

    A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example.   Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want

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  • Book Learning Is Not Enough

    Book Learning Is Not Enough1

    In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes

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  • Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools

    Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools0

    What is the spectre haunting Europe today? It’s simple. The thing that truly dogs us, that really drags at our heels, is ignorance. Ignorance of the fundamental ideas at the heart of politics. Ignorance of the key terms of political argument: liberty, equality, power, justice, and so on. Ignorance of the subject matter of political

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  • What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump

    What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0

    You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them

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