Some like philosophy because it makes their minds tingle. Others find answers to their questions. Still others like questions without answers. For Cicero, writing in the 1st century B.C. during the transition from Roman Republic to Roman Empire, the answer was much simpler: to be wise. As he writes in On Duties, “And wisdom, according
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You’ve seen the National Debt Clock. At $18 trillion, it’s something we’d rather forget. But did you know that we have another pile of debt on our hands? It’s the student loan debt bomb, and it grows by $3,000 per second for a current debt measurement of nearly $1.3 trillion! What’s even more alarming
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Today’s Washington Post contains its semi-annual, John Taylor Gatto-wannabe letter from a public school teacher on why she is quitting. It’s not shocking, since about half of teachers quit within their first five years. The letters are published more for the purposes of spurring on education policy. In the letter, the teacher in Michigan –
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It’s often said that a high quality teacher is the most important factor in determining a child’s academic success. But as we gear up for a new school year, numerous states are reporting that there is a shortage of this crucial component. Such reports caused Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute to wonder if today’s
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Perhaps you’ve seen the images below around your neck of the woods? They are billboard PSAs from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ campaign to “encourage and strengthen fathers and families”: Save this article to favorites
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In case you ever wanted more evidence that reading is beneficial for children, a new study published in the Pediatrics medical journal will fit the bill. Led by Dr. John Hutton, a research team from Ohio “used functional MRI scans to measure real-time brain activity in 19 children, aged 3 to 5 years, as they
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