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Coming Clean: My 5 Suggestions for Improving the Education System 0
- Education
- October 23, 2015
At Intellectual Takeout, we often criticize today’s American education system. In reaction, some in our audience make the blanket accusation that we are “against public education.” Others accuse us of merely “cursing the darkness” rather than “lighting a candle,” and wonder what we would suggest to improve things. Are we against public education? If
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This 1848 Essay Perfectly Portrays the 2016 Election 0
- Culture
- October 23, 2015
A couple of days ago Joe Biden announced that he wouldn’t join the roughly 20 candidates running for president in 2016. Regardless of what one thinks of his politics, the Vice President is to be commended. It seems he has resisted the urge and ambition to join the popularity contest and the power and wealth
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Many Women Distancing Themselves from Feminists 0
- October 23, 2015
Emily Hill, writing for the British magazine The Spectator, says that it’s time for feminists to recognize the white flags. As the title of her article reads, “Feminism is over, the battle is won. It’s time to move on.” Today, as Hill points out, girls are doing better in school, more women attend university than
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Makers vs. Takers 0
- Culture
- October 23, 2015
A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call
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9 Timeless Quotes from Dostoevsky 0
- Education
- October 23, 2015
1. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” 2. “The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.” 3. “If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force
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Really, Mr. President?0
- Culture
- October 23, 2015
Yesterday, Minneapolis Public Schools proudly shared a letter of congratulations from President Obama. Here’s the post: Here’s the letter: Assuming the letter is real, the President really ought to have had his team check out the school district before sending a letter of congratulations to the interim superintendent. We certainly agree that “Our Nation’s future
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