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  • Could Students Today Pass the 1919 SAT Exam?

    Could Students Today Pass the 1919 SAT Exam?0

    With the holidays over and graduation fast approaching, many students are preparing for a final crack at the SAT.  In light of this test preparation, it’s interesting to consider whether or not today’s students would be able to take one of the earliest SAT exams. Judging from the 1919 English Literature test from the College

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  • Let’s be honest about the Cologne assaults

    Let’s be honest about the Cologne assaults0

    Awful things took place in Cologne and other German cities over New Years. In Cologne alone, 1,000 men assaulted women to varying degrees, including rape. As the BBC reports: “City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it ‘a completely new dimension of crime’. The men were of Arab or North African appearance, he said.” Ah, yes,

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  • Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”

    Huxley: Brave New World “Coming True Sooner Than I Thought”0

    In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World—a dystopian novel imagining a future in which people live in a highly organized society that they are conditioned to accept. In 1958, in Brave New World Revisited, he looked back on his novel and reflected on how accurate its predictions of the future had been (you can read the

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  • This great inventor only had 5 years of formal schooling

    This great inventor only had 5 years of formal schooling0

    If you’re a military-history buff, you’ve probably heard the name Hiram Maxim. If you haven’t, he is credited with inventing the Maxim machine gun in 1884, which substantially changed warfare with its ability to fire 600 rounds per minute. Now, the ingenuity of the Maxim machine gun reveals that odd contradiction of progress. On one

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  • Chesterton and the Meaning of Education

    Chesterton and the Meaning of Education0

    “It is typical of our time,” Chesterton wrote, “that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it

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  • This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?

    This Family’s 7 Kids All Enrolled in College by Age 12?!?0

    Today’s students are on a much more delayed educational schedule than in times past. Before the 20th century, students used to enroll in college around the age of 15. The Harding family of Alabama is witnessing to the previously more expedited educations in a remarkable way: their first seven children all enrolled in college by

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