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Restoring the Four Pillars of Education 1
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it? We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a
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Are Children Missing Life Lessons by not Gardening?0
- Culture
- August 19, 2016
Earlier this week, my colleague Daniel Lattier made the following claim: “When fewer men farm, civilization dies.” He went on to show that the decline of agricultural society – both in ancient Greece and Rome – was linked to the decline of virtuous living which the small family farm promoted. The small family farm is
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There’s No Western Civilization without Christianity 0
- Western Civilization
- August 19, 2016
As my boss is prone to remind me, you can’t enjoy the fruit by cutting down the tree. Yet, that is exactly what many today hope to do when it comes to Western civilization: they want a world permeated with Western values such as freedom, justice, and equality that no longer preserves a knowledge of
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Capitalism: Who Are The Real Beneficiaries?0
- Economics
- August 18, 2016
In Milton and Rose Friedman’s classic book Free to Choose: A Personal Statement they made the following point (this quote was featured on my recent Milton Friedman birthday post): Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant relatively little to the wealthy. The rich in Ancient Greece would
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A University Student’s Schedule… from 500 Years Ago 1
- Education
- August 18, 2016
As we at Intellectual Takeout have recently pointed out, today’s college students aren’t devoting very much time to studying. The typical modern student spends less than 3 hours per day on education-related activities, i.e., attending class and studying. Undoubtedly this phenomenon is in large part due to the swelled ranks of college students combined with
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Professors Work to Restore Free Speech on Campus 0
- Education
- August 18, 2016
Four classically liberal professors and an economist named Adam Smith walk into a room. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke; it was the first event of the Classical Liberals in the Carolinas conference held last week at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte. The annual conference, now in its third year, was
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