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  • Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’

    Students Today: Minds without ‘Furniture’0

    In my reading on past education philosophy, I have repeatedly encountered the phrase “furniture of the mind.” Perhaps the first instance of it is found in one of the most famous educational documents in history—“The Yale Report of 1828”—where the faculty of Yale College (now University) said the following: “The two great points to be

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  • Did ‘high ideals’ survive the Great War?

    Did ‘high ideals’ survive the Great War?0

    As we mark look back on World War I, it is not particularly difficult to see its great political aftershocks: the emergence of the United States as a global power, the Russian Revolution, the modern state of Israel, the still controversial borders of the Middle East, and of course: the second world war and the

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  • Presidential Quotes

    Presidential Quotes0

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  • Can Chess Improve Student Behavior?

    Can Chess Improve Student Behavior?0

    A new study conducted in the U.K. produced a surprising finding: teaching elementary age children chess doesn’t improve math scores on standardized tests. This finding made waves as many previous studies have shown that learning chess brings significant boosts in math and science scores, particularly for older students.    But in fixating on this negative

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  • Science versus Scientism

    Science versus Scientism0

    Science is good but scientism isn’t. Science looks at the cosmos objectively, indeed scientifically. Scientism doesn’t. Science, in the broadest sense of the word, derived from the Latin scientia, simply means “knowledge.” In this sense, all branches of knowledge can be considered as science. Philosophy is a science, history is a science, theology is a

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  • If the Constitution Was Written Like Campus Speech Codes

    If the Constitution Was Written Like Campus Speech Codes0

    We don’t know for certain if Voltaire actually said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Nonetheless, it’s a sentiment that has been a cornerstone of Western culture since the Enlightenment, and free speech is a right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.   But

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