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  • 10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”

    10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”0

    • August 17, 2015

    Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the school environment. He advocated restructuring education to provide people with multiple opportunities for learning outside of school. “What

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  • 500 Years Ago, This is What Europeans Were Doing on August 15

    500 Years Ago, This is What Europeans Were Doing on August 150

    • August 15, 2015

    The answer: celebrating the feast of Mary’s Assumption. From early centuries, Christians believed that Jesus Christ’s mother, Mary, was taken up (“assumed”) body and soul into heaven upon her death. They celebrated this event annually with a feast day since at least the 6th century. And in Europe of 1515, when the overwhelming majority of

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  • University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni

    University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni0

    • August 14, 2015

    In the Western world, the university was created to be a utopian environment of learning separated off from the harshness and ignorance of the world outside. At many of today’s universities, learning has taken a backseat, but the utopian ambitions remain, now mainly in the form of entertainment. For four to eight years, students can

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  • Sex in a Time of Hooking Up

    Sex in a Time of Hooking Up0

    • August 14, 2015

    Trending on Vanity Fair right now is an article entitled “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse.’” (For those who don’t know, Tinder is one of many “dating” apps that also happens to be frequently used by millennials to hook up with each other on short notice.) The article describes a world where young

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  • Presidential Candidates Better Have This Character Trait

    Presidential Candidates Better Have This Character Trait0

    • August 14, 2015

    Campaign season has (unfortunately) started once again. According to a presidential cheat sheet from The Atlantic, there are roughly eight alleged presidential candidates for the Democrats and a whopping 20 for the Republicans. Don’t worry, they’ll be whittled down soon enough, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them are naturally knocked out of

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  • Beware Teachers Like These Ones in Ancient Greece

    Beware Teachers Like These Ones in Ancient Greece0

    • August 14, 2015

    Their name? “Sophists.” In Norms and Nobility David Hicks writes: “Socrates was a nuisance to many of the educators of his day, the utilitarian Sophists who were experts at teaching their students how to function within the madding city of Athens. A Sophist tended to accept the ‘givens’: an advocacy system that had lost the

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