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Topic
Education
A collection of 125 issues
Our Universities Need a Revolution
From UnHerd
The growing movement to restore classical education
Chesterton articulates so well [this vision] of education being the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to the next
The Chicken Heart that Sucks Out Our Souls
Photo by Changbok Ko
[https://unsplash.com/@kochangbok?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on
Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]The great
Stoic Epictetus pointed out that education is the means to freedom.
Unfortunately, education today frequently becomes the means of slavery.
Everyone
The Joseph Epstein/Jill Biden Affair
My man Joseph Epstein made a flash a few years ago with his suggestion that Jill Biden drop the "Dr." from her title while she serves as First Lady.
The uproar was pretty intense. I saw him referred to as a "misogynist," "bigot," and
Friday
BYCU
I hung out at Central Michigan University quite a bit when I went to school at
Alma College in the 1980s. These days, I only get back there when I go to
Soaring Eagle, Michigan's first indian casino and one of the few in the lower
peninsula
Monday
Student Loans
The student debt problem is getting more and more press . . . and more
attention
in Congress
[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577364120264435092.html?mod=WSJ_GoogleNews&mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1]
. The whole debate infuriates me. The federal government created this mess by
throwing a ton of money at
Thursday
Politically Incorrect Speech Upheld
In case you missed, it a federal Court of Appeals court seems to have brought a
dose of common sense to its First Amendment jurisprudence. A high school student
wore a shirt that said, "Be happy, not gay." She wore it the day after
Wednesday
Crushing the Youth
This article about the "college tuition bubble"
[http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/2010/06/8-reasons-college-tuition-is-the-next-bubble-to-burst/]
is interesting, but its content doesn't support its assertion. The assertion:
College tuition is in a bubble that is about to get pricked. The content then
gives eight reasons
Wednesday
Finally, I Post a Small Tribute to the Cardinal
The puzzling Roger Scruton recently penned a borderline-beautiful tribute to
Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University. Check it out
[http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/17/the-idea-of-a-university]. Excerpt:
> The university is a society in which the student