==== Roger Scruton, writing in “What’s the Point of Education?”—a Nov. 3 article for the British magazine, the Spectator: Why does the state take an interest in education? The prevailing view . . . has been that the state takes an interest in education because it is the right of every child to receive it. . . . The assumption has been,... Read more
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
The NAACP’s Disgrace
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Party Politics, The LeftIt boggles my mind.. ========= The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a storied history, but many organizations outlive their moral purpose and it’s now clear this one has. The civil-rights outfit has come down firmly on the side of trapping poor minority children in education failure factories. On Saturday the NAACP’s national board voted to ratify a resolution... Read more
Massachusetts Charter Showdown
September 3 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Education, Ruling ClassThe intensity of opposition to Charter schools, even public ones, is nothing short of amazing. Why, might one ask, is this so? ========= WSJ 9/1/2016 Republican Governors who face Democratic legislatures have a tough slog, but one path to political leverage is a referendum at the ballot box. Charlie Baker is using that route in November to override a Massachusetts House that is... Read more
PC at Marquette
April 8 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftIf there is a better term I can use, please, help me out. ====== WSJ 4/8/2016 Blogging can be dangerous to your livelihood— or at least it can at Marquette University, where a professor may lose his job for expressing the wrong political views. In November 2014 an undergraduate approached philosophy instructor and PhD candidate Cheryl Abbate, after a class on John Rawls’... Read more
Summer Reading List
May 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Personal DevelopmentBy Gilbert T. Sewall May 29, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Parents often think fate has singled their children out for poorly chosen school reading assignments. It hasn’t. A distressed father recently told me about seeing his high-school-age daughter’s summer reading list and realizing that it was devoted exclusively to contemporary writers such as David Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell and Barbara Ehrenreich.... Read more
