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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I am reading Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, and it is fueling my longstanding fascination with India. Das is former CEO of Procter & Gamble India and currently a columnist for Times of India. He grew up under Nehruvian socialism and state planning and watched it become a crippling disaster, and he has seen the dramatic
At a hotel recently I was zooming up in its sleek elevator to my room when I noticed something: no 13th floor.
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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published its eighth issue of Kaizen [pdf], focusing on the theme of Education and Entrepreneurship. It features my interview with Steve Mariotti, founder of the excellent Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization dedicated to providing entrepreneurship education to low-income youths. Also featured are guest speakers David Mayer,
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