Some people can smell a rat a mile away. Others don’t notice even when the odor wafts right under their noses. Olfactory proficiency by itself doesn’t make you a hero. But if you’re among the first to pick up the scent and warn others, and then you put your political future on the line to
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In recent years, America’s schools have attempted to train teachers of the highest quality. To ensure quality, teachers are trained to know the latest and greatest theories and philosophies in child development, lesson planning, and teaching technique. But in our rush to educate these teachers in the latest and greatest education philosophies, have we overlooked
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Even if you haven’t actually read a version of the legend of King Arthur, you’ve probably seen one of the movies or TV miniseries about it. I well remember the least serious: the 1963 animated Disney classic The Sword in the Stone, which many children from then on have also seen. We just don’t have
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I have always sought to instill into my students that a knowledge of literature is not possible without an adequate knowledge of history, philosophy and theology. I stress, for instance, that we cannot know the plays of Shakespeare unless we know something about the time and culture in which he was living and the philosophical
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When students in a maximum security prison education program beat out West Point cadets in a debate competition a while back, the story made headlines because of its almost man-bites-dog nature. West Point debate coach Adam Scher recently responded to the phenomenon in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. As Scher implies, debate competitions
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Love is perhaps the greatest emotion humans can feel. It’s generally viewed as a positive concept, but philosophers, literature, and psychologists have long attempted to show that love of the wrong things in the wrong ways is a great vice. The philosopher Mortimer Adler, in his book The Great Ideas, identified three types of “bad
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