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  • Have You Read These 10 Titles From the Original Harvard Library?

    Have You Read These 10 Titles From the Original Harvard Library?0

    In 1638, a man named John Harvard died and bequeathed half of his estate and his library of over 400 books to a fledgling college in Massachusetts. Today, we know that college as Harvard University. To the modern ear, many of the titles John Harvard left to the college are unfamiliar and likely known to

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  • Australian Schools Brought Back Greek and Latin – and Are Seeing Amazing Results!

    Australian Schools Brought Back Greek and Latin – and Are Seeing Amazing Results!0

    In 2015, less than 40% of American 4th and 8th-graders achieved proficiency in reading. Public schools have been trying to boost these numbers for years, but have had little success. But news out of Australia may offer a new way to boost not only America’s reading proficiency, but math and science proficiency, as well. How?

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  • ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing

    ‘Pilpul’ describes what happened to academic writing0

    At one point in Chaim Potok’s classic The Chosen, David Malter—the father of the main character Reuven—discusses the decline of Jewish scholarship in the eighteenth century. In the discussion, he uses a term that accurately describes much of modern academic writing—“pilpul”: “Jewish scholarship was dead. In its place came empty discussions about matters that had no

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  • Is it Time to Stop Pushing the “College-for-All” Mantra?

    Is it Time to Stop Pushing the “College-for-All” Mantra?0

    In Forbes today, columnist Erik Sherman addresses a common mistake that politicians and the public make about education. All too often, writes Sherman, “we move from ‘education is good’ to ‘education will fix income inequality’ or otherwise charge the economy.” Because the public has believed such taglines, the push to send every student to college

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  • Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’

    Chicago Cops’ New Motto? ‘Stay Fetal’0

    Cop blogs can give you a fascinating insight into what’s going on behind the badge. If you want to get a glimpse of the realities and politics of police work in Chicago, check out Second City Cop, which gets about half a million pageviews each month. Some of it is rather humorous, like this request

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  • Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton

    Wisdom from the Supremely Quotable G.K. Chesterton0

    1. “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”   2. “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”   3. “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”   4. “I object

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