Business education is often good at teaching useful business theories and skills, but it is less often good at teaching ethics. Ethics is often seen as irrelevant or as an obstacle, so business ethics is either not included in the core business curriculum or offered as an elective ornament. Claim: Ethics is organically central to […]
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The University of Alabama is canceling three days of classes for a football game in January. The university’s representative notes that “the three canceled class days will not be made up elsewhere on the calendar.” Meanwhile: The University of Wisconsin closed for one day last week when the city got 17.5 inches of snow. Professor
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Mind becomes numb; Words do not mean; World out of plumb— Man needs caffeine.
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Over the semester I have been reading and enjoying Michael Strong’s The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice. I was struck today by a quotation Strong draws from Peter Drucker’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship: “We have known, for instance, for several hundred years that mathematics is a problem subject in school. A small
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The estimable Adam Smith, writing over two centuries ago. When you read the following passage, do you find (as I do) that Smith is describing many current public schools and state universities? “In other universities, the teacher is prohibited from receiving any honorary or fee from his pupils, and his salary constitutes the whole of
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Dr. Joshua Hall, a professor of economics at Beloit College in Wisconsin, spoke at Rockford College on the topic of “The Dilemma of School Finance Reform.” The talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and after the talk Professor Hall was video-interviewed by Anja Hartleb-Parson, CEE’s publications manager. More interviews with CEE’s
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A follow up to my post on Why life is 255 times better now than in 1800. Some warm-up indicators: By 1900 the U.S. had recently become the wealthiest economy in the world, slightly surpassing Australia and Great Britain, and it had become twice as wealthy as France and Germany and four times as wealthy
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The education of children is a highly philosophical enterprise — the project is long-term, of great importance, requires a strategic understanding of human life, and puts our actual values to the test. In my Philosophy of Education course, we spend much of our time finding where the rubber meets the road — that is, connecting
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