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A fantastic article on education was published by Huffington Post yesterday. (Reminded me a bit of, well, my own post on the same topic) John Whitehead looks at zero-tolerance and discipline policies in modern American schools and makes key insights into how these are influencing the social development of children. The [...]
Two recent articles point to the emergence of something I have been waiting for…philanthropic organizations recognizing and even publicizing when they fail.
In my years working in the non-profit sector, I developed an ever-expanding wish list of things I would change. At the top of the list was the donor-fueled perverse incentive structure. Under the [...]
I know we haven’t used this blog in a while, but we are going to start again now…with the launch of Liberty for Kids-Resources for Exploring the Foundations of a Free Society, with Children!
The goal of “Liberty for Kids” is to be a guide for parents, teachers, and young people [...]
Which form of government is “our form of government?” According to political commentators and network news, we have a democracy. Do we?
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.meriam-webster.com):
Democracy: is a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in [...]
I find myself constantly amazed at the lack of ethics and logic, even just plain common sense, regarding our treatment of children in society. The startling lack of judgment on the part of the Lower Merion School District (The latest headlines read:
A suburban school district secretly captured at least 56,000 webcam photographs [...]
This article on Mises.org (HT: Blake Stephenson) gives an example of how the negative feedback loops inherent in large, centrally directed bureaucracies stifle the use of judgment, local knowledge and initiative.
The article illustrates why the modern state should not be in charge of public education. But I think it also suggests that there [...]
St. Johns College President Christopher Nelson recently gave an address about the value of a liberal arts education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have ever asked me why I went to St. Johns, what I think is so great about the liberal arts, or why I think that [...]
“We are probably only at the threshold of an age in which the technological possibilities of mind control are likely to grow rapidly and what may appear at first as innocuous or beneficial powers over the personality of the individual will be at the disposal of government. The greatest threats to human freedom probably still [...]
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“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not,
as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe,
an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory”
~Emily Post, American Etiquette Pioneer
A new study in the journal Psychological Science concluded [...]
“Tyrants forbid citizens to do their duty as free men.
Free government permits them to do it.
Liberal education enables them to do it.”
Stringfellow Barr, Co-founder of St. John’s College Great Books program, 1941
In Andrew’s post on Jacob Klein, he briefly quotes Scott Buchanan’s essay [...]
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