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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Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick gave a talk at Rockford College on October 28 on “Montessori and Dewey as Educational Philosophers.” Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor of International Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In the following eleven-minute interview after his talk, I speak with Dr. Kirkpatrick about the two great educational philosophers of the twentieth century,
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Fascinating numbers in this Harris poll on 21st-century Americans’ beliefs about ghosts, astrology, witches, and other supernatural phenomena. For example: 73% believe in miracles. 61% believe in a devil. 40% believe in ghosts. 25% believe in astrology. And so on, with interesting breakdowns of the data based on sex, political affiliation, and amount of education.
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Here’s a 55-second video clip about CEE‘s winning a 2009 Templeton Freedom Award from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation: This video is also posted at AERF’s Atlas Network site.
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The insightful Shikha Dalmia, senior policy analyst at Reason and a columnist for Forbes, in a 6.5 minute video interview for Reason.tv, on two of my favorite topics: India, and movies about India:
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From Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, on education since 1947, when India became independent of Britain and tried democratic politics mixed with heavily top-down, government-run economic planning: “The story of education in free India is a sad one. The government created a vast number of schools, practically free, after Independence. But they were so uniformly bad
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