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Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy [Good Life series]

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Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and […]

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Entrepreneurial Education Conference at Rockford University

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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars) Terry Noel (Illinois State University) Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College) Amy

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Public Choice and our semi-functional education system

1 Comment / Education, Politics / Stephen Hicks

What happens to education when it is politicized? Now that we have a new administration, led by Donald Trump, and a new secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, here is an updating of a Public Choice analysis of our mixed government-private education system came to be. The following is based in part by E. G. West’s

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Punished for teaching one’s kids

1 Comment / Education, Politics / Stephen Hicks

A warlord king went off with his men to attack a neighboring kingdom. While he was away his city was vulnerable — and another warlord saw his chance. When the unprotected city’s inhabitants saw the approaching army, they made hasty defenses, fought vigorously, and were able successfully to beat off the attackers. When their king

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Goyal’s Schools on Trial

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In Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice by Nikhil Goyal asks: Are America’s schools little more than cinderblock gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity and true learning, and squelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students? Goyal is a recent high school graduate (2013), but recalls his

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Is Education Really Too Expensive? [Good Life series]

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Many people complain about how education has become so expensive. Mostly, they are wrong. Schooling has become more expensive, but consider the cost of the following awesome education resources: * Kahn Academy for learning math: Free. * Louvre Online for experiencing and studying art history: Free. * Google Translate for learning dozens of languages: Free.

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The Civil Rights Movement is Dead in Universities

1 Comment / Culture, Education / Stephen Hicks

Thus sayeth the encyclopedia: American history has been marked by persistent and determined efforts to expand the scope and inclusiveness of civil rights. The 1950s and 60s were a great upsurge of energy to achieve: * Equal rights for all races and sexes * Free speech * Integration * Due process and the ending of

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Do entrepreneurs need formal education? Lall Singh answers

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On the value of formal education for entrepreneurs, British entrepreneur Lall Singh says this: “Formal education is the way to go. You have to load yourself with the key thinking. I found that originally—and this was having qualified as an accountant—you’ll still find yourself blinkered in the market because you don’t understand the marketing aspects;

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