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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 [...]
I have been reading Ayn Rand’s essay “Philosophy: Who Needs It” again recently. This is an excellent and accessible essay that almost everyone would enjoy. In it, Rand sets out to explain why everyone needs philosophy.
One of the main points of the essay is that every one of us is already possessed of a [...]
I have a number of very intelligent and eager students who meet with me after school for various intellectual clubs. (There is Philosophy on Mondays, Logos, a math and logic club, on Wednesdays, and Debate on Thursdays. I also facilitate the Socrates Café in Houston on a Sunday once a month and Benjamin Cohen-Kurzrock, one [...]
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