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What Is the End Goal of Education?0
- Culture
- July 7, 2017
In the 1913 Elementary Course of Study, published by the State of Kentucky, the introduction to the second chapter states that “The highest function of the school is character building.” The chapter then goes on to detail how teachers should go about forming this character in their young elementary school students, as well as what
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Is Diversity Becoming a Religious Cult?0
- Culture
- July 7, 2017
The distinguished Catholic theologian Paul Griffiths was purged from Duke Divinity School for refusing to worship at the shrine of Diversity. No doubt this was a case of “You’re fired/I quit.” But we have here not just a question of academic freedom, but also a theological controversy, which in earlier ages would have led to
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Couples Don’t Need Wedding Loans. They Need More Modest Weddings 0
- Culture
- July 7, 2017
It’s been fifty-four years since Jessica Mitford skewered the funeral industry in The American Way of Death, and twenty-five years since she followed up with The American Way of Birth, which was equally scathing. Unfortunately, Mitford died without writing the third part of what should have been a trilogy. Missing is an exploration of the
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Huxley Predicted the Future of Education 0
- Culture
- July 7, 2017
Sensible and reasonable people often disagree on the purpose of education. As we’ve seen, men as renowned as Cicero and Benjamin Franklin believed the primary purpose of education was to build character and virtue in pupils. Moral education of this kind is likely to be palatable to most people—at least when a society enjoys general homogeneity
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Studying Philosophy Doesn’t Necessarily Make One Smarter 0
- Education
- July 7, 2017
Does studying philosophy improve one’s thinking, and thus make one more employable? Some top and not-so-top philosophy departments, concerned by the threat of declining enrollment and funding cuts, would have you believe it does. But Neven Sesardic, who has taught philosophy at universities around the globe and can boast some impressive publications, says that there’s
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10 Small Events that Changed the Course of History 1
- History
- July 7, 2017
In his book Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids and Other Small Events that Changed History, Phil Mason documents dozens of small happenings over the centuries, many of which seemed insignificant at the time, that seemed to change the course of history. As stated in the book, one of its purposes is to prove that “…significant historical events are
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