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Professor: The Perks of One-Room Schools 0
- Education
- January 19, 2017
In recent years, many have looked to technology to be the panacea for America’s education problems. Surely, the thinking goes, an iPad in every set of hands will open the floodgates to knowledge that can be personalized to every child. But former public school teacher and current college professor Dr. John Schrock disagrees that looking
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Is There Room For Pro-Life Women in the Women’s Rights Movement?0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
“Women” is a big word, so you would expect an event billed as a “women’s march” to be a very broad church. But the “Women’s March on Washington” scheduled for Saturday, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president, has become rather sectarian, with the unintended consequence that pro-life women are getting some air time
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The Radical Skepticism of Impressionism 0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
Impressionism … is another name for that final skepticism which can find no floor to the universe. – G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday The great writer G. K. Chesterton delighted in paradoxes, those apparent contradictions that point to a deeper truth. Sometimes, however, the paradoxes are so shocking to our senses or our
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Does This Philosopher’s 30-Year-Old Observation Explain the Current Social Upheaval?0
- Culture
- January 19, 2017
The last couple of years have been marked by numerous outbreaks of violence, demands and protests, and in general, great social unrest and upheaval. For those who have watched life unravel around them, such unrest can be confusing, causing many to sit back and wonder why we continue to experience such troublesome explosions. There are
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Benjamin Franklin’s 4 Steps to Becoming a Great Writer 0
- Education
- January 18, 2017
If Twitter or Facebook had existed during the colonial period, Benjamin Franklin likely would have been one of its wittiest contributors, as evidenced by his pithy words of wisdom in Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Franklin wrote far more than witty slogans. In fact, his personal correspondence, policy proposals, and other writings take up a full
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High School Apprenticeships: A New Path to Prosperity 0
- Culture
- January 18, 2017
It’s no secret that the college degree has long been considered a path to success. It’s also no secret that those who take that pathway are more often than not ending up in the mire of student debt – and struggling to get out. This dilemma has caused many to look elsewhere for alternatives to
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