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10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER0
- Education
- October 30, 2015
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” remains the most popular TED talk ever. That should tell us something about the public’s desire to transform today’s education system. Here are 10 thought-provoking quotes from it: 1. “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring
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We’re All Narcissus Now0
- Culture
- October 29, 2015
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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The Medieval Period was a Dark Age? Don’t be Ignorant.0
- Culture
- October 29, 2015
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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Is School Preventing People from Growing Up?0
- Education
- October 29, 2015
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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Intellectuals Didn’t Oppose Nazism Because It Was ‘Tedious’0
- History
- October 29, 2015
There are times when men shirk from opposing grievous error because it’s dangerous, or inconvenient, or they are temporarily blinded by it. And sometimes, it’s because it’s so damn boring. This lesson was forcefully brought home to me in an article Carl Trueman wrote for First Things last year entitled “Persistent Defiance.” In
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China Will Now Allow Couples to Have a Whopping Two Kids0
- Politics
- October 29, 2015
The all-beneficent People’s Republic of China is lifting its infamous one-child policy in favor of a two-child policy. As you can guess, the reason is largely due to the aging population of China. The Washington Post reports: “The nation’s fertility rate — 1.4 children per woman — is far below that of the United States and many
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13 Quotes from John Dewey You Can Probably Agree With0
- Education
- October 29, 2015
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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Was Hungary Right to Build a Wall?0
- Culture
- October 28, 2015
As the world watches the continuing migrant crisis in Europe, Hungary has quietly gone rogue by building a massive fence to keep people out of its country. The question is, did Hungary actually get it right? The Atlantic reported on October 16, 2015: Hungary will close its border with Croatia at midnight in an attempt
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Uh Oh: U.S. Student Test Scores Drop0
- Education
- October 28, 2015
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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