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How Anne Sullivan Worked Her ‘Miracle’ with Helen Keller 0
- Education
- April 14, 2016
Most of us know teaching pioneer Anne Sullivan from “The Miracle Worker,” a story based on the autobiography of Helen Keller that has been made into several Broadway plays and movies. The name of the story derives from Mark Twain, who declared Sullivan such; and it’s hard to disagree with Twain’s assessment. In 1887, Sullivan,
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Study: Vocational Classes Keep High School Students Interested 0
- Economics
- April 14, 2016
Last year, Intellectual Takeout posted a popular quote from Mythbusters star Adam Savage on the need to reinstate shop class. Savage said: “If you want the kids’ test scores up, bring back band and bring back shop and get kids actually learning stuff instead of teaching them how to take a test.” The effectiveness of
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C.S. Lewis on the Decline of Reasoning 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
The old adage declares that “there is nothing new under the sun.” Nevertheless, it’s hard not to be amazed when something written by past generations strikes to the heart of what we are dealing with today. So it was when I picked up a copy of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters written in 1942. For
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The Real Debate is over Human Nature 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
In Federalist #51, the ‘Father of the Constitution’, James Madison, argued: The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of
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Did Stanford Students Just Reject Western Civilization?0
- Western Civilization
- April 14, 2016
Did Stanford students just reject Western civilization? According to the headline of a Daily Caller story a few weeks ago, they did. Given what actually happened, that seems grossly exaggerated. But not by as much as some might think. A few months ago, the conservative campus paper The Stanford Review proposed instituting, as part of
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Psychologist: ‘Authoritative Parenting’ is Best for Children 0
- Culture
- April 14, 2016
Several months ago, Dr. Leonard Sax made headlines when he proposed that the lack of discipline we see in America today is simply the surface symptom of a greater problem: the decline of parental authority. Dr. Sax’s theories were recently underscored by psychologist Lisa Damour in a New York Times piece on the benefits of
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