Mr. Daniel Gray, B.A. History, 2019, The University of Washington
I spoke with my good friend Daniel Gray yesterday for about 2 hours and, as usual, talking with him always makes me feel better and enriches my life. He is truly one of the finest people I’ve ever known. Continue reading Daniel Gray – My Good Friend
A friend alerted me to an interview with Kathryn Paige Harden, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The interview concerns her new book The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality. Continue reading The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
(This essay, first appeared at 3 Quarks Daily. Reprinted with permission.)
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What is commonsense to most people who received a K-12 public education in the United States is that every formal system of state schooling throughout the modern world is designed to educate its students to develop, what Charles Lemert calls “sociologically competencies” within whatever ideological system is dominating at the time of their schooling. Continue reading “Schooling And The Emergence Of Free-Market Authoritarianism: The Struggle For Democratic Life”
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
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In “As Basic Science is Politicized, Conservatives Become Suspicious of Higher Ed,” Dr. Darrell Arnold recently shared his experience discussing basic scientific truths in his college philosophy classes. Continue reading Conservatives & Higher Education
(University of Bologna is the oldest institution of higher education in the Western world.)
“History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
~ H.G. Wells Continue reading Destroying Higher Education in America