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Education
Online Education: Boon or Bane?
04.04.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsNPR’s Morning Edition reported recently on the expansion of public school curricula using online courses. The feature interviewed students and one teacher about their forays into online education. Using a program called Virtual Virginia, students at rural schools like Rappahannock County (VA) High School are supplementing their education with AP courses and other courses such […]
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Education, Culture 2
NextGen Leaders Don’t Want the Role
The Washington Post today reports the results of a new survey by the Girl Scouts of America. Their summary?
A new nationwide survey of girls and boys found that a majority of children and youths in the United States have little or no interest with achieving leadership roles when they become adults, ranking “being a leader” […] -
Faith, Education
The Honest Atheist
In her column at Salon.com, Camille Paglia admits the bankruptcy of atheism:
In my lecture on religion and the arts in America earlier this year at Colorado College, I argued that secular humanism has failed, that the avant-garde is dead, and that liberals must start acknowledging the impoverished culture that my 1960s generation has left to […] -
Quotes, Education
John Owen on the Manner of Knowing
“The difference between believers and unbelievers as to knowledge is not so much in the matter of their knowledge as in the manner of knowing. Unbelievers, some of them, may know more and be able to say more of God, his perfections, and his will, than many believers; but they know nothing as they ought, […]
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Education, Culture 2
Will Your Tax Dollars Pay for Jihad?
If any doubts remain about the government-funded educational establishment’s straying from real education into indoctrination via “multiculturalism,” the following post should dispel any doubts.
This is an old article, but the Sun’s coverage of an Arabic language public school in Brooklyn, New York, really got my attention. Among the dozen or so articles by various Sun […]
