Education

Scholar: Many Schools Today Are ‘Indoctrination Centers’4
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Here in my city, parents with privilege have many choices. They can send their children to progressive private schools with no grades and no tests, Montessori or Waldorf schools that each focus on a specific value system and learning philosophy, parochial schools, or traditional independent schools. They can also choose to send their children to
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This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home 0
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village. The
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Who is Winning the Gender War: Boys or Girls?0
- Education
- August 7, 2017
Recent headlines have made much to-do over the gains – or setbacks – of transgender students. With this focus, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s happening with the two original genders: boys and girls. For many years, we’ve been told that it is females who are falling behind in the war between the sexes.
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Logic is More Important than Ever – So Why Don’t Schools Teach it Anymore?2
- Education
- August 7, 2017
One of the great ironies of our age is that schools have stopped teaching logic in an age when it’s more necessary than ever. We live in a time defined by vast information, mass marketing, and propaganda. It’s been 70 years since Dorothy Sayers observed that by teaching young men and women to read but
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Are Huge Schools Sucking the Life Out of Our Kids?0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
I’ve been fascinated with the concept of the one-room school ever since I watched television episodes of Little House on the Prairie in my preschool years. Admittedly, my early fascination stemmed from the romanticism of wanting to be like Laura Ingalls. But as I grew older and that romanticism faded, the interest in one-room schools
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Survey: Parents are Clueless about the Poor Education Their Children are Receiving 0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
There’s a longstanding mystery when it comes to the relationship between America’s schools and the parents who send their children to them. Evidences of this mystery have been apparent in a running Gallup poll which asks Americans to rate public schools. On a national level, Americans think public schools stink. Criticism decreases considerably, however, when
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