Education

Why Education Can Exist—and Prosper—Without Government Schools 2
- Education, MomThink
- May 6, 2024
In his famous essay The Law, Frédéric Bastiat explains how many who object to the free market and liberty create a false dichotomy between having the government provide some service and the service’s abolition altogether: Socialism, like the old policy from which it emanates, confounds Government and society. And so, every time we object to a
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What Four Years of Creative Writing Have Taught Me 4
- Education
- April 29, 2024
In 2020, I took my first college-level creative writing class. It was held on Zoom (compliments of COVID-19), and I wrote a clunky 500-word piece that was, in part, about a bug. Now, at the end of four years of writing prose, poetry, and hymns, my writing has become (at least slightly) more sophisticated. Here
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Walker Percy on How to Recover Education 4
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- April 15, 2024
Why is it that so many students in the modern American education system say that school is “boring”? Aren’t they learning about the most fascinating aspects of our world? Isn’t part of human nature, as Aristotle teaches, to desire to know? In his brilliant essay “The Loss of the Creature,” the novelist and philosopher Walker
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Veteran Teacher: Here’s What’s Wrong With Traditional Schooling 5
- Education, MomThink
- April 15, 2024
For 19 years, I was a master of time. Down to the minute, I controlled time for others and used it to meet my and others’ ends, irrespective of the desires of those in front of me. In short, I was a public-school teacher, and controlling time was my talent. Although I and other adults
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Education Eclipsed: Unnecessary School Closures Breed Anxious Children 1
- Education, Family, MomThink
- April 12, 2024
A total eclipse crossed the country this week in a display of natural wonder. Rather than seize the opportunity for an engaging science lesson, hundreds of school districts with several hundred thousand students decided to close for the day, many citing safety concerns that students might accidentally look at the eclipse without proper eye protection. Even worse
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Making a Case for Cursive 2
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- April 10, 2024
Recently, I asked my fifth graders if they enjoyed writing in cursive. Students at the all-boys Catholic school where I work start training in cursive penmanship in third grade, so my students had been practicing it for the better part of three years. I expected them to say that it is boring, that they do
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