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  • 13 Quotes from John Dewey You Can Probably Agree With

    13 Quotes from John Dewey You Can Probably Agree With0

    1. “Familiarity breeds contempt, but it also breeds something like affection. We get used to the chains we wear, and we miss them when removed.”   2. “The quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth.”   3. “The source of whatever is dead, mechanical, and formal

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  • We’re All Narcissus Now

    We’re All Narcissus Now0

    Do you know the story of Echo and Narcissus? If not, it’s a good one in the age of selfies. Before there were selfies, there were mirrors. Nearly everywhere we go in the modern world, we have the chance to gaze upon ourselves with them. It’s something that we take for granted, while forgetting that

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  • Is School Preventing People from Growing Up?

    Is School Preventing People from Growing Up?0

    In a First Things piece today, Mark Bauerlein reaffirms the thesis that a separate adolescent society has developed in American culture. It used to be that children were simply looked at as adults-in-training. Many have made the point that “childhood” is an invention of the Victorian age. But, as James Coleman noted over fifty years

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  • The Medieval Period was a Dark Age? Don’t be Ignorant.

    The Medieval Period was a Dark Age? Don’t be Ignorant.0

    Too often in conversations and on social media, people will conflate the Dark Ages with the time of Medieval Europe. The motivation behind the argument has roots in both the Protestant Reformation and then the Enlightenment and their joint toppling of Christendom Europe. For the past to be rejected and a new order to be

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  • Uh Oh: U.S. Student Test Scores Drop

    Uh Oh: U.S. Student Test Scores Drop0

    For the first time in 25 years, U.S. student scores on the national standardized test have dropped. As USA Today reports, “The latest results of the biennial tests, given to thousands of students and nicknamed ‘The Nation’s Report Card,’ show a first-ever drop in math scores for the randomly selected students in both fourth- and eighth-grade students

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  • Ben Franklin never forgot this conversation with his father…

    Ben Franklin never forgot this conversation with his father…0

    When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he was very fond of fishing; and many of his leisure hours were spent on the margin of the mill pond catching flounders, perch, and eels that came up thither with the tide. The place where Ben and his playmates did most of their fishing was a marshy spot

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