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  • Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying

    Today’s College Students Aren’t Studying0

    Most of those in the Intellectual Takeout audience already believe that college education has become a shadow of its former self… that its curriculum has been significantly dumbed down… and that its students spend more time partying than hitting the books. Here is just one more statistic that confirms that belief. According to a study

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  • The Real Reason Students Should Study Philosophy

    The Real Reason Students Should Study Philosophy0

    Isn’t philosophy supposed to help people live well, not just exercise the mind? That was the ancient view. The evidence is clear that exposure to philosophical questions, ideas, and dialogue at an early age improves academic outcomes generally, and in particular cultivates the skills needed for reasoned dialogue. (Intellectual Takeout has posted several pieces to

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  • Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline

    Presidential Candidates Symptom of Educational Decline0

    Over the weekend, author and economist Ben Stein made some rather disparaging comments about the presidential candidates for both parties. In essence, Stein believes they are clueless when it comes to important issues, particularly economics. But the cluelessness doesn’t stop at the presidential candidates. According to Stein, the clueless candidates are simply a symptom of

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  • D-Day’s Greatest Hero: Agent Garbo

    D-Day’s Greatest Hero: Agent Garbo1

    There were more heroes on D-Day than can be counted. The vast majority of them died long ago, their lives marked by little more than a stone cross at a quiet commune in northwestern France. Juan Pujol García—aka Agent Garbo—is one of the few heroes of D-Day whose story has been told. And though the

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  • Are We All Bigots Now?

    Are We All Bigots Now?0

    First, some terms need to be defined here if this is going to make any sense. big·ot /’big?t/: a person intolerant of those holding different opinions. o·pin·ion /?’piny?n/: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. For the sake of clarity, let us say that opinions are the sort

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  • 5 Brief Accounts from D-Day Survivors

    5 Brief Accounts from D-Day Survivors0

    June 6th marks what would have been my grandparent’s sixty-third wedding anniversary. Although I never took the opportunity to ask them, I always wondered if they chose the day in honor and recognition of the D-Day invasion on the beaches of Normandy. In all likelihood, the trials their generation endured during the war would have

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  • Why Can’t Employers Today Find Reliable Workers?

    Why Can’t Employers Today Find Reliable Workers?0

    In a tight job market, graduates need to do more than ever to make themselves stand out if they want to land a position. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to do this: read A Message to Garcia and take its advice to heart. I ran across this short essay while paging through a manual of

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  • Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?

    Why Are So Many Female Teachers Sleeping With Students?2

    I posed this question on my Facebook page a few days ago: “Is there much/any social science on the phenomena of female teaches suddenly sleeping with students?” This was shortly after news broke that a 24-year-old Texas teacher was on the lam for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old student who had also impregnated her, according

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  • Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees

    Students Skeptical of Value of College Degrees0

    It’s graduation season and many high school seniors are counting the hours until they can walk across the stage and turn the corner toward college and career. But as a new survey out of the United Kingdom suggests, those graduates are likely to be less bright-eyed and full of hope than graduates before them. Many

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