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What Happened to Doing Good Things in Secret?0
- Culture
- December 3, 2015
Yesterday, the internet was filled with praise for the story of a woman who bought a cake (pictured above) decorated by an employee with autism. NBC News reports: “Lisa Sarber Aldrich of Grand Rapids wrote on Facebook that she went to a Meijer grocery store to pick out a cake when she asked a ‘bakery-looking
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10 Rather Sobering Quotes from Joseph Conrad 0
- History
- December 3, 2015
1. “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” 2. “It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.” 3. “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.” 4.
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The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky 0
- Culture
- December 3, 2015
The end of the twentieth century of the Christian era is not far distant, and all about us things fall apart. There comes to my mind the last drawing from the pencil of William Hogarth, who died in 1764: it is a sufficient representation of the state of civilization today. Hogarth’s final drawing is known
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Have Americans Forgotten How to Make Friends?0
- Culture
- December 3, 2015
Have you ever heard of paying someone to be your friend? If not, prepare yourself, for renting a friend or hiring a person to “snuggle with” is a rising new business. According to The Atlantic, “Samantha Hess and Becky Rodrigues are paid to hug people. Cuddlers for hire, they will hold clients close, in a
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High School Curriculum 200 Years Ago vs. Today 2
- Education
- December 3, 2015
Has the curriculum in America’s high schools been “dumbed down”? The question is often asked, but many lack anything beyond anecdotal evidence to compare past curricula with the present. So, to make an initial, humble offering for the sake of comparison, I thought I would post the curriculum of the first public high school
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Being Emotional Isn’t a Form of Debate 0
- Culture
- December 2, 2015
Discourse, especially in schools, is miserable these days. As Randall Smith, the Scanlan Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, argues, there are only three options when it comes to uncomfortable topics, “Non-judgmentalism, furious indignation, or ironic detachment.” How he describes his experiences teaching at the college level goes a long
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