Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today. But this epic poem, at over 350 years old, remains a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now. In more than 10,000 lines of blank verse, it tells the story of the war for heaven and of man’s expulsion from Eden. Its dozen sections are an ambitious attempt to comprehend... Read more
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Why You Should Re-Read Paradise Lost
January 10 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Interesting, LiteratureA California Attempt to Repair the Crumbling Pillar of U.S. Education
November 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, UnionsThe “teacher’s unions” have probably caused more damage to our country than about anything I can think of. The negative, life-long, impact the the poor educational system has had on America’s youth is off the chart. But I guess, 80 million Americans keep voting them in?? mrossol WSJ 11/28/2021, by Andy Kessler Public-school education has gone from bad to worse.... Read more
American education needs a revolution
November 11 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Critical Thinking, Education, Radical IslamUnHerd, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 11/11/2021
Perhaps I was naïve, but when Brandeis University offered me an honorary degree in 2014, I accepted it in good faith. Brandeis’s motto, after all, is “Truth, even unto its innermost parts”. Yet what followed proved the very opposite: that, at Brandeis, the innermost parts of truth don’t count.
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The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT
October 31 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Censorship, Education
National School Boards Association Apologizes Over Letter Comparing Parents to Domestic Terrorists
October 24 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Critical Theory, Education, Losing FreedomIf I were on a school board, I would urge disassociation with NSBA. They issued an apology, but the mentality or beliefs that caused them to write what they did in the first place is likely still very much a part of that organization. Proof is in how they will respond to parents’ input. mrossol
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