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When the Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, suggested last month that students majoring in French literature should not receive state funding f...

The Grosse Pointe Public Schools had put a $50 million bond issue on the ballot; it was voted on February 25. The public rejected it by a 7...

Sometimes all the news that’s fit to air can give one a rude shock. News on PBS (I think) the other day informed us that Recess is shrinkin...

With controversy churning once again around a rise in the interest on student loans, Brigitte wondered how the U.S. situation compares to t...

Well, as they say, nothing is free. But nominally free education is still available in the United States even in these Latter Days. Here ar...

My contention is that measurement, the very core of the scientific approach, becomes problematical when applied too rigidly to those areas o...

It’s sort of obvious, when I think about it: culture is formed in grade- and middle-school. The logic for that runs as follows. The values w...

Most of life’s learning serves adaptation in the sense that its subject is the world. In a real way even such arcane studies as astronomy h...

In an earlier post I noted changes in the official diagnosis of autism ( link ). One thing leads to another. On a walk with Monique, talking...

Full turns of Time’s big wheel always cause me to recall Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). He was one of the chaotic but inspired thinkers who infl...

Those of us “left behind” by the Rapture of Modernity when it came, gosh, I can’t quite pin down the date, need help in understanding what w...

Learning has a visceral aspect—a touch and feel and hear and smell component. I’ve always known this at some level, but conscious knowledge ...

One of the odd surprises for my family coming to the United States (and here I mean my mother’s and my own very junior reactions—but later a...

Studies in France have virtually no other end than the making of money —said Michele de Montaigne in his essay, "On schoolmasters' ...

When my family arrived in the United States, you could go to college at your state university without paying tuition; you had to pay for lod...

The coincident appearance of two accounts recently reminded me again that Artificial Intelligence is supposedly advancing even as Ordinary I...

We have a long association with the Montessori Method of education—and when I say we, I mean Brigitte particularly and myself as a humble se...