With reports coming out that typical preschool programs can actually be a detriment to a child’s academic and social success, perhaps it’s not surprising that parents are looking for alternatives. One recent alternative is outdoor preschool. According to The New York Times, outdoor preschool pushes back against society’s trend toward obesity, electronics, and standardized academics,
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Yesterday, Intellectual Takeout posted on Dr. Leonard Sax’s belief that there’s been a decline in discipline and parental authority in the American family. Today, we thought we’d post on the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey, which breaks down exactly how parents say they are attempting to discipline their children: “Parents employ many
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In the West there seems to be an assumption that runs through a variety of political orientations that if we just solve poverty, provide more freedoms, or accommodate more desires that all people will be peaceful. We seem to have forgotten that the West’s system of government and general political outlook has traditionally been rooted
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Reading philosophy can be tough-going, and ideally, you have an expert to help you through it – at least initially. However, philosophy now has a diminished role in modern curricula, leaving most people to fend for themselves if they want to gain familiarity with the Western philosophical tradition. For those who would like to venture
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Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, some have accused Russia of slipping back toward totalitarianism. Which is why some news outlets see significance in the fact that George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel 1984 was one of the bestselling books in Russia this past year. Paul Gobel at the blog Window on Eurasia writes, “Russians
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Surely it’s obvious that we live in a mass communication world. What may not be obvious to those of us in the 21st century is that this has been going on for a long time now and the consequences were foreseen way back when. In The Rape of the Mind (1956), Joost Meerloo digs into the
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