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The Sokal Affair: Why can’t academics write clearly?0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
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 Students0
- Education
- August 1, 2016
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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Report: What Today’s High School Seniors Are Reading0
- Culture
- August 1, 2016
At the end of last year, Learnalytics (powered by Renaissance Learning) released their report titled What Kids Are Reading, 2016. The report was based on data from 9.8 million students in 31,327 schools during the 2014-15 school year. Among its interesting interactive features is one that allows you to see the most popular books read by
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Quiz: Name The Famous Book By The Secondary Character0
- Literature
- August 1, 2016
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Mark Twain’s Top 5 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life0
- Education
- August 1, 2016
Mark Twain was a prolific writer, satirist, humorist and lecturer, and he always had some sort of quirky, sometimes ironic, wisdom on just about everything. As the author of books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his prominent place in literature has been forever cemented in history. Here are five Mark Twain
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Can You Pass This College Entrance Exam from 1901?0
- August 1, 2016
Is the curriculum in today’s schools less rigorous than it was 100 years ago? Many Americans have been suspicious that the answer to this question is yes, particularly as they have caught glimpses of book lists and other class requirements from the past. The following images provide a further glimpse into the schools and subject
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What Stalin’s Great Terror can tell us about Russia today0
- History
- July 29, 2016
Between the summer of 1936 and 1938, the regime of Joseph Stalin summarily executed 750,000 Soviet citizens without trial or any legal process. In the same period, more than a million others were sent to the labour camps of the Gulag, from where many would not return. In the history of a murderous regime, this
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What Quentin Tarantino can teach us about … Theology?0
- Culture
- July 29, 2016
The nature of philosophy, viewed from a certain angle, is to think about the deep meaning imbedded in ordinary things. Plato’s Socrates made his reputation by challenging people that he encountered to question their own assumptions about the meaning of various ordinary concepts that, upon reflection, prove to be deeper than they seem: justice in
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What David Bowie’s Childhood Can Teach Us About Madness0
- Entertainment
- July 29, 2016
We live in a crazy world which seems to be getting crazier by the minute. The reason is that the number of crazy people in the world is on the rise. Rates of suicide, mental illness, alienation, schizophrenia, loneliness, drug abuse and many forms of addiction are all seemingly out of control. Why are we
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