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  • Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children

    Award-Winning Teacher: 8 Problems Plaguing Children2

    Shortly after being named New York teacher of the year in the early 1990s, John Taylor Gatto wrote a public letter of resignation, explaining that he could no longer be a part of a system which hurt children and families. Following his resignation, Gatto released a book of essays called Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden

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  • Are we witnessing the birth of a Revolution?

    Are we witnessing the birth of a Revolution?0

    The Modern Era was born with a revolution. So begins Jacques Barzun’s seminal history, From Dawn to Decadence.   Martin Luther might not have intended to ignite a revolution when he pounded his 95 theses into the door of Wittenberg’s All Saints’ Church on Oct. 31, 1517. (This practice was not uncommon in Luther’s day; it was a

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  • Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?

    Are We Living in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’?0

    It’s almost a century since T. S. Eliot shocked the world with the avant garde innovation of “The Waste Land,” the fragmentary form of which reflected the fragmented brokenness of the modern world that it satirized. Like a modern-day inquisitor, Eliot questioned the value of modernity: “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

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  • Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes

    Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes0

    Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU). “Most perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to

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  • The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?

    The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0

    Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. The above is an excerpt from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s

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  • Teacher: Public Schools Can’t Support Gifted Students

    Teacher: Public Schools Can’t Support Gifted Students0

    Over the weekend, columnist Jay Mathews presented a revealing anecdote in The Washington Post about the nature of public education. According to Mathews, Maryland student Caitlyn Singam recently graduated at age 15 with an SAT score of 2200. Such a feat is impressive, particularly since her kindergarten teacher wanted to make Caitlyn a special needs

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