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Philosopher: No, you’re not entitled to your opinion2
- Education
- July 28, 2016
Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning. Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps
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Karl Popper Quotes to Make you Think0
- Education
- July 28, 2016
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (d. 1994) is considered one of the greatest philosophers and scientific minds of the 20th century. Born into an upper middle-class family in Vienna in 1902, Popper grew up surrounded by books and learning. His father was a bibliophile, and the younger Popper inherited this love for the written word. Though
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How Good Is Your Mathematical Reasoning?0
- July 28, 2016
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Can we stop making terrorists and shooters famous?0
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
When 19-year-old Adel K and his fellow jihadist entered the Eglise St. Etienne in a Normandy town on Tuesday armed with knives, they could be sure of one thing: whatever happened, they would be famous. The mere attempt to kill a priest as he finished celebrating Mass would get them world headlines since they were Muslims and
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Boys Today Aren’t Getting Enough Time Around Men2
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
A basic premise of the apprenticeship model is that people best learn by example. Thus, if you want to become a skilled piano player, you study for years under a virtuoso. If you want to be a good electrician, you work under a master electrician for a period of time. And if you want
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Book Learning Is Not Enough1
- Culture
- July 28, 2016
In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes
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Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
What is the spectre haunting Europe today? It’s simple. The thing that truly dogs us, that really drags at our heels, is ignorance. Ignorance of the fundamental ideas at the heart of politics. Ignorance of the key terms of political argument: liberty, equality, power, justice, and so on. Ignorance of the subject matter of political
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What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0
- Culture
- July 27, 2016
You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them
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Report: College Students Spend Only 2.8 Hrs Per Day on Their Education0
- Education
- July 27, 2016
A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.” Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on
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