Education

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Destitute Mom Gave Him One Hell of an Education 0
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- August 31, 2017
J.R.R. Tolkien’s father died when he was just four years old. The famous author, best known for The Hobbit and his Lord of the Rings trilogy, was raised by his mother, Mabel, who took great pains to see that her young son received a proper education. Mabel did not disappoint. Authors Philip Zaleski and Carol
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Mark Lilla: My Students Are Consumed with Their Own Identities 0
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- August 29, 2017
The New Yorker, one of the last great literary publications still in existence, recently ran a fascinating interview with Mark Lilla. For those unfamiliar with Lilla, he is a professor at Columbia who caused a bit of a fuss last November when he wrote an article for the New York Times imploring fellow liberals to
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3 Back to School Thoughts from G.K. Chesterton 0
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- August 28, 2017
Every year, the approach of fall signals to children and parents that it’s time to gear up and begin the cycle of packing lunches, picking out clothes, racing to the bus stop, and coming home at night with armloads of books and homework once again. But while parents and children across America know this drill
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Did Medieval Medicine Ever Work?1
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- August 28, 2017
It all began as one of those Friday afternoon projects that medical researchers sometimes do to satisfy curiosity. No one expected it to work. The researchers were testing medieval medical remedies by replicating a 1000-year-old recipe for an eye salve. They were prepared to see it prove that medieval medicine was backward and even superstitious.
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What if School Was More Like Summer Camp?1
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- August 25, 2017
For many children, summer camp is transformational. Working collaboratively, mostly through play and hands-on experimentation, campers try new things, encounter new challenges, and meet new mentors and friends. They are often outside, exploring the world around them, with ample opportunities for freedom and self-expression. Then summer ends and they go back to school, confined in
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Scottish NYU Student: U.S. Universities ‘Stifling’ and ‘Dangerously Insular’0
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- August 24, 2017
In a recent article for The Spectator, New York University journalism major Madeleine Kearns wrote about her first year at a U.S. university. The experience she describes does not sound very positive. Kearns, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland describes an environment that would have looked like a parody of a university setting a generation
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