Education

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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Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice 0
- Education
- August 4, 2017
We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering. There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not
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Passing Out Copies of Constitution Could Get You in Trouble at This College 0
- Education
- August 1, 2017
A college policy that led to the arrests of a student and two supporters of a conservative group for passing out copies of the Constitution on a Michigan campus is getting its day in court. A lawyer with the First Amendment legal aid group Alliance Defending Freedom was set to argue in court Tuesday for
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Intelligence is Worth Little Without Wisdom 0
- Education
- July 31, 2017
As I went for my usual afternoon walk on my old campus at Notre Dame – recalling the class I had in that building, the conversation I had over there, the quiet moments reading on that bench there – I became aware of the creeping feeling of regret, as happens every so often. You see,
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