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  • Famous People Who Achieved Success Later in Life

    Famous People Who Achieved Success Later in Life0

    • August 18, 2015

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  • We Need More Gentlemen Today

    We Need More Gentlemen Today1

    Few treatises on education have had as much influence in modern times as John Henry Newman’s (1801-1890) Idea of a University – a collection of lectures first published in 1852. One scholar has gone so far as to write that “modern thinking on university education is a series of footnotes to Newman’s lectures and essays.”

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  • The Economist’s Very Balanced Article on Black Lives Matter

    The Economist’s Very Balanced Article on Black Lives Matter0

    According to an editorial in The Economist, the Black Lives Matter campaign has some legitimate complaints, but hints that their excessive rhetoric may work against resolutions. The article – “What the Black Lives Matter campaign gets wrong” – presents one of the more balanced (I’ll let you judge whether “balanced” means “correct”) views of the movement

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  • Shouldn’t Black Lives Matter Express More Outrage About This?

    Shouldn’t Black Lives Matter Express More Outrage About This?0

    On the Black Lives Matter website you will find a list of “Demands”, which include the following:  The arrest of officer Darren Wilson. National policy aimed at redressing systemic racism in law enforcement. A discontinuance of federal aid in the form of military weaponry to local law enforcement.  The bringing to justice of all officers involved in

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  • The Universal Orphanage

    The Universal Orphanage0

    According to a poll done by Pew Research in December 2014, less than half of American kids now live in a traditional family. You can see the massive decline of children living in a traditional family in the chart below:    Many young Americans have no recollection of a world when “normal” was kids living

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  • 10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”

    10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society”0

    • August 17, 2015

    Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the school environment. He advocated restructuring education to provide people with multiple opportunities for learning outside of school. “What

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