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But What About the Socialization?!?0
- July 21, 2015
The Washington Post recently reported on a new study about the effects of television viewing. Apparently, the more television a toddler watches, the more likely he is to be bullied in middle school. “[E]arly television viewing is linked with developmental deficits in brain functions that drive interpersonal relationships and how kids regulate their emotions. TV viewing
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The Intellectual Storm Upon Us 1
- Culture
- July 20, 2015
“A great desolation grows about us but up there is the warmth of a fireside and the loveliness of a garden. There are shrines for the devout, but up there is a shrine for those who are going to war, for those who will see the shivering void beyond the rim of faith. Once heroes
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A 200 Year-Old Warning about Education in America 3
- July 20, 2015
It was 1803, and America was just coming into its own. But Princeton professor Samuel Miller (1769-1850) saw trouble on the horizon in an increasingly utopian attitude toward education. In A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century he wrote: “On the subject of Education, the century under review has given birth to a doctrine, which, though noticed
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Sundays Are Disappearing from the Western World 0
- July 17, 2015
Perhaps some of you are old enough to remember Sundays when stores and restaurants were shuttered, and a deeper peace and quiet reigned. In America, it has now become a day where the mall closes at seven instead of nine. Apparently, this trend is spreading throughout the West. In last week’s Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens
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Are Your Friends Really Your Friends?0
- July 17, 2015
To get by, we all need a little help from our friends. But in an age too often marked by superficiality, we often think about whether those we now call “friends” are actually our friends who will be with us in both fair and stormy weather. Turns out, the people in times past thought about
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The AFT Clinton Endorsement Just Keeps Getting Weirder 0
- July 17, 2015
It seems that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) ignored a memo from Richard Trumka, President of AFL-CIO, when it endorsed Hillary Clinton for president earlier this week. Trumka allegedly sent a memo to all leaders under AFL-CIO’s umbrella – which would have included Randi Weingarten, president of AFT – saying that endorsement for president
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