A golden jubilee is by definition the celebration of a fiftieth anniversary. Fifty years have passed since a watershed year in our history: 1969. Yet many of us, I suspect, will find little gold or jubilee in this anniversary. Yes, 1969 was the year America put a man on the moon. That feat deserves a
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A young man caught my eye recently when he walked into a trendy café in Austin. It wasn’t his curling mustache but the fact that he was walking barefoot. This struck me as an odd choice given that it was overcast and drizzly outside. But I restrained my staid judgmental Britishness—this is America, after all,
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As the decline in education standards in Australia continues, new research conducted by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) offers a solution. The study, headed by research fellow Blaise Joseph, examined 18 schools in disadvantaged areas around the country that boast consistent records of above-average academic performance. The study found six common factors across these school that
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Leonard Sax is a family medical doctor who has often demonstrated his commitment to common sense approaches to life. This is particularly clear in his comments on modern child-rearing. As he once bluntly noted, today’s children are “immersed in a culture of disrespect.” But Sax has been carrying his common sense approach to life into
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Today’s parents are fixated on setting their children on strategic paths to “success”— cramming their days with lessons, sports, clubs, camps, and so on. The goal: to enrich their kids’ lives with new knowledge and experiences. Or, more commonly, “to keep them busy.” We do the same for ourselves, of course, stocking our calendars with
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When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground. – Variation on an African proverb In the mid-1990s, Mrs. Irene Harrison (1890-1999) from Akron, Ohio stayed in my bed-and-breakfast in Western North Carolina. On her last visit,
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