When a teacher named Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of school in the fall, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her pupils and said that she loved them all the same, that she would treat them all alike. And that […]
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This 2019 book published by Routledge, a mainstream educational publisher, crossed my social-media horizon today, so I read through the material available via Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature. The volume seems to be CRT-lite or a usual expression of concerns about racism. In either case, I didn’t notice anything indicating a heavy-duty advocacy of Critical Theory.
Critical Race Theory in Math Education? — quick book review Read More »
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five: Ethics: Values and Education Part Six: Integrated
Education Theory 1: What Is *Philosophy* of Education? Read More »
Socialism by the numbers. This unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course provides data on countries that are currently socialistic. The complements the first eleven units of our Socialism course, which cover theoretical and historical aspects of socialism and their implementations. Find the data here. We analyzed and compared 24 countries to each other and the
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This unit of our Atlas University course on Socialism analyzes democratic socialism: In our generation, most socialists have shifted away from overtly dictatorial socialism. Among younger people is some level of awareness of socialism’s terrible history but they still think of it as an ideal to be striven for. What do they hope for and
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If you are not familiar with Professor Kors’s work, give yourself a treat and check out his lecture at Clemson University, which we feature as part of our Waterfall course on Socialism. Dr. Kors is a professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in European intellectual history and co-founder of
Alan Charles Kors, “Socialism’s Legacy: Lest We Forget” [Atlas Intellectuals] Read More »
Re-posting this now that we are halfway through the academic fall semester. What expectations should animate an education space? Related: “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” academic journal article at Reason Papers. Invited lecture at Clemson University, “The Postmodern Attack on Liberal Education.” “Real Liberal Education: interviewed by Marsha Enright,” one-hour Great Connections conversation.
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Well said by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate, in response to yet another university’s shrinking its vision: “We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of
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