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  • The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers

    The Key Thing That Differentiates Ancient and Modern Schoolteachers1

    In recent years, America’s schools have attempted to train teachers of the highest quality. To ensure quality, teachers are trained to know the latest and greatest theories and philosophies in child development, lesson planning, and teaching technique. But in our rush to educate these teachers in the latest and greatest education philosophies, have we overlooked

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  • Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings

    Why feminists hate Lord of the Rings0

    “Ever since I arrived at Cambridge as a student in 1964 and encountered a tribe of full-grown women wearing puffed sleeves, clutching teddies, and babbling excitedly about the doings of hobbits, it has been my nightmare that J.R.R. Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream

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  • 3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books

    3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books0

    Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting

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  • Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?

    Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?0

    Debates about models of political economy typically polarize between advocates of laissez-faire capitalism and full-on socialism. It’s as if the only choices were (a) “every man for himself” in the free market, with little or no social safety net, or (b) government owning or running the most vital sectors of the economy, for the sake

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  • Childless Women Now Want ‘Me-ternity’ Leave?!?

    Childless Women Now Want ‘Me-ternity’ Leave?!?0

    An interesting article from the New York Post was brought to my attention the other day. The article, written by Anna Davies, declared that single and childless women should be entitled to lengthy, excused absences from work, a concept akin to maternity leave without the children. Davies calls this leave a “meternity.” The reasoning behind

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  • Student Detained For Using $2 Bill to Buy Lunch

    Student Detained For Using $2 Bill to Buy Lunch0

    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the public school system. Imagine sending your child to school with money to buy lunch, and then being told that the child was attempting to use “fake” money to buy said lunch. (And that your child had “admitted” it was fake.) Well, that’s what reportedly happened

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