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  • Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore

    Libraries: Not Just For Reading Anymore0

    • February 11, 2016

    The days of the library being only for bookworms are long gone. Libraries are branching out (pun intended). And, according to a new piece for The Atlantic, their efforts are making them into community hubs: “There are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America’s towns: technology, education, and community.” The Center for

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  • Less Freedom and Equality, more Justice?

    Less Freedom and Equality, more Justice?0

    It goes without saying that Freedom and Equality can both be good principles depending upon how they’re applied. Unfortunately, they seem to have taken on an ideological character over the last few decades. When we look at our political and cultural discourse, many start either with the idea of Freedom or Equality as the highest

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  • A Poignant Quote from Will Durant

    A Poignant Quote from Will Durant0

    Strangely enough, the odd malaise and pessimism that occupies our times isn’t unique to this decade. It has been building for some time now as we of the West have moved further from our roots and the natural order of things. Check out this excerpt from Will Durant’s On the Meaning of Life from 1932: “This

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  • C.S. Lewis on “The Essential Evil” of Schools

    C.S. Lewis on “The Essential Evil” of Schools1

    Author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) attended school in England between the ages of 9 and 15. During that time, Lewis was for the most part blessed with good teachers. Yet, in reflecting back on his experience, Lewis describes in his autobiography what he also came to see as “the essential evil of public-school life.” (“Public school”

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  • File This Under ‘Things You Would Never See in America’

    File This Under ‘Things You Would Never See in America’0

    • February 11, 2016

    At Intellectual Takeout, we often wish that people would be more passionate about ideas. But this might be taking it a bit too far… In 2014, the Independent reported that a teacher in Russia killed his friend over a dispute about… wait for it… the merits of poetry versus prose. “A Russian teacher allegedly killed

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  • In Defense of Memorizing

    In Defense of Memorizing1

    • February 11, 2016

    If you ever read the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace as a kid, you probably know that Betsy and her friends were big fans of producing home-grown entertainment programs. And the entertainment perpetually ran along the same lines: Betsy and Tacy performed the Cat Duet, little Tib did the Baby Dance, talented Julia played

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