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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 [...]
We recently came across the following anecdote about Jacob Klein, an eminent liberal artist and once dean of St. John’s College, at this blog:
During WWII the Navy considered seizing the campus of St. John’s via eminent domain in order to expand the Naval Academy. The fledgling New Program based on the great [...]
“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.” ~Maria Montessori
I recently returned from my first North American Montessori Teachers Association Meeting, held in Seattle, WA. What I learned there absolutely reaffirmed that education is the best way, certainly the best voluntary way, to support liberty. [...]
Maria Montessori writes the following in “To Educate the Human Potential”:
“How can the mind of a growing individual continue to be interested if all our teaching be around one particular subject of limited scope, and is confined to the transmission of such small details of knowledge as he is able to memorize? How can [...]
I found out recently that the Christian Science Monitor published an excerpt from John Maynard Keynes’ “General Theory” next to an expert from Frederic Bastiat’s “What is seen and what is not seen” about economic stimulus. What a cool idea! Here’s the link.
It’s a pity they didn’t publish just a little more of [...]
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