by Barry Fagin | Jul 26, 2010 | Business & Economics, Education, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Originally Published August 2004} Suppose your child came home sick from school. Suppose you found out the school nurse treated his fever with a cold shower and his sweaty brow by wiping it dry. You’d be outraged, because that’s just responding to...
by Barry Fagin | Jun 28, 2010 | Education, Society & Culture
{Originally published at the Independence Institute in January 2004} “Math is hard, let’s go shopping!” When Mattel released a talking Barbie who offered that bit of teenage wisdom, public reaction was so furious they pulled her off the shelves....
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 20, 2009 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” – Aristotle I once thought I had a degree in philosophy — but apparently now my degree is in “various”. While browsing through my alumni newsletter, I came across a...
