Last year, Intellectual Takeout posted a popular quote from Mythbusters star Adam Savage on the need to reinstate shop class. Savage said: “If you want the kids’ test scores up, bring back band and bring back shop and get kids actually learning stuff instead of teaching them how to take a test.” The effectiveness of
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It can be hard finding time alone in a world that has most of us “connected” in some way, 24/7. The technology that has made its way into our daily lives is almost impossible to avoid using in this day and age. Between smartphones, tablets, iPods, laptops and regular desktop computers, we’re never far from
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Several months ago, Dr. Leonard Sax made headlines when he proposed that the lack of discipline we see in America today is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Dr. Sax’s theories were recently underscored by psychologist Lisa Damour in a New York Times piece on the benefits of
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Aldous Huxley and George Orwell wrote arguably the two most popular novels portending the West’s dystopian future. For decades, thinkers have opined on which of the two starkly distinct totalitarian nightmares–that of Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984–was more likely to come to pass (or, as some contend, had come to pass). What has garnered rather little
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Most of us know teaching pioneer Anne Sullivan from “The Miracle Worker,” a story based on the autobiography of Helen Keller that has been made into several Broadway plays and movies. The name of the story derives from Mark Twain, who declared Sullivan such; and it’s hard to disagree with Twain’s assessment. In 1887, Sullivan,
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Did Stanford students just reject Western civilization? According to the headline of a Daily Caller story a few weeks ago, they did. Given what actually happened, that seems grossly exaggerated. But not by as much as some might think. A few months ago, the conservative campus paper The Stanford Review proposed instituting, as part of
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