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Memorization Is Still a Necessary Skill0
- August 22, 2016
With another school year about to start, here’s a bit of advice from a recently retired college history teacher. Beware of teachers whose opening day gambit assures all new students that they have little or nothing to worry about on the following front: none of that dreaded memory work will be asked for, much less
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Children Should be Encouraged to Read Fantasy Fiction1
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Recently I spoke with a friend who expressed some angst that his 12-year-old son was primarily interested in reading fantasy novels. Efforts to introduce the lad to higher forms of literature were proving more difficult than he’d expected. Not to worry. Fantasy novels and science fiction yarns, I said, are often gateways to the higher
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Were Cavemen more civilized than Millennials?375
- Culture
- August 19, 2016
In a previous article for Intellectual Takeout, I commented on G. K. Chesterton’s complaint that the modern world’s perception of the so-called “Cave Man” was based on a supercilious prejudice, or what might be called a chronological snobbery, which was akin to racism. The stereotype that we’ve created for our Neolithic ancestor is of a
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10 Strangest Deaths of Roman Emperors0
- Education
- August 19, 2016
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Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education0
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Department of Education recently proposed new regulations to punish colleges that attract students with misleading claims. But what if the whole system of higher education in America is guilty of that? In his latest book, Charles Sykes, a senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, makes the case that it is. Fail U.: The False Promise of
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Restoring the Four Pillars of Education1
- Education
- August 19, 2016
Few would argue that modern education is in crisis. Evidence suggests our system creates moral nihilists; professors admit they are teaching students who “know hardly anything about anything at all.” So what is to be done? If education is so bad, how do we fix it? We need to begin by reexamining what constitutes a good education, a
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