Higher education can be a path to a successful life. Yet many successful people did not graduate from college — and many unsuccessful people have impressive degrees. So who should go to college? And who should pay for it? Let’s start by imagining an average student who wants to go to college but has no […]
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In your lifetime, how many times can you remember when everyone agreed about the significance of a major cultural phenomenon? It is happening now, as libertarians, conservatives, left-liberals and far-leftists all agree that a deep rot has set into Political Correctness. Hell is freezing over and pigs can now fly. The symptoms of P.C. are
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For some years outside my office door, I’ve had posted this excerpt from the American Association of University Professors Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure (1915): “The university teacher, in giving instruction upon controversial matters, while he is under no obligation to hide his own opinion under a mountain of equivocal verbiage,
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A dedicated page for my online lecture series on the Philosophy of Education. Course Description: This fifteen-part video course covers philosophical issues that bear directly upon education. Professor Hicks discuss the philosophers — Plato, Locke, Kant, Dewey, Montessori, and others — who have influenced education greatly, and he compares systems of educational philosophy and their
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Over the next two weeks, I’m giving five talks in Santiago and one in Puerto Montt, Chile August 16, Faculty of Economics, University of Chile. “Ethics for Entrepreneurial Business Leaders.” (Drawing on my article “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.”) August 17: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez: “Why Entrepreneurial Engineers Have Been This Generation’s Unacknowledged Ethical Leaders.” August 17:
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My essay “Educating for Entrepreneurship” was translated into Polish as “Edukacja dla przedsiębiorczości” and published in the journal Przeglad Pedagogiczny 2015, Numer 1. Here now is the live link to the abstract and the text. Abstract: Jak najlepiej możemy pomóc młodym ludziom w nabraniu postawy przedsiębiorczości — przygotować ich czy to do zainicjowania własnego biznesu,
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Primeiro ponto: os manifestantes não são nem “flocos de neve” que derretem quando o clima esquenta, nem “flores delicadas” cujos sentimentos são machucados. Os estudantes universitários já viram filmes violentos, terminaram relacionamentos, leram coisas grotescas na internet, viram filmes pornôs, perderam pessoas queridas, e ouviram notícias trágicas sobre eventos ao redor do mundo. Ainda assim,
A batalha pelas universidades [Portuguese translation] Read More »
At the end of this academic year, I crunched some numbers from my gradesheets for the last three years. I then focused on the high and low ends of the grade distribution: * An almost-exact equal numbers of males and females received A or A- grades. * Of the 26 students who received F grades,
Male and female academic performance — my small set of results Read More »