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- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature, Uncategorized
- June 30, 2025
It has become common for schools to not only impart knowledge to children, but to also take care of a basic need of life, namely, food. This is evidenced through the presence of school lunch programs and now even breakfast. The last few years demonstrate that schools are no longer content with offering meals to
READ MOREBusiness Insider has an interesting graphic showing eight things smart people seem to have in common. You have a cat You’re the oldest child You took music lessons You don’t smoke You’re thin You’ve used recreational drugs You’re left-handed Eight is not quite enough for my taste, so let’s look at a few more indicators of intelligence:
READ MOREOne of the more interesting theatrical events of the year is set to happen on October 19th in New York City. That’s when journalist and documentarian Phelim McAleer’s play Ferguson will open at Urban Stages theater for a three-week run. The production is likely to force a wholesale re-evaluation of the events that took place
READ MOREHomeschooling in America is growing by leaps and bounds and it isn’t difficult to understand why. In many traditional schools, parents are being treated as bystanders in the education of their own children, and the perception of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable for the classroom is topsy-turvy. In California, the Rocklin Charter School was
READ MOREThe Fraser Institute released its annual “Economic Freedom of the World” report this morning. The free market think tank rates every nation based on its “degree of freedom in five broad areas”: Area 1:Size of Government—As spending and taxation by government, and the size of government-controlled enterprises increase, government decision-making is substituted for individual choice
READ MOREOver the last few weeks I have been making my way through Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. In reading it, I have once again been struck by Dickens’ remarkable ability to weave multiple, insignificant storylines into a cohesive tale. It is this talent which perhaps explains why a main theme of the novel did not hit
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