Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Great insight from John Taylor Gatto
Monday, August 23rd, 2010LewRockwell.com reprinted the preface to The Underground History of American Public Education by John Taylor Gatto, and it had some quote-worthy passages: I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say at all in choosing ...
Fish in a barrel 6
Thursday, December 17th, 2009For some combination of reasons, the main one probably being the coming of the Second Great Depression and the need of so many people to save money, the exorbitant price of a college degree is being criticized and questioned more loudly and frequently than I can remember. For instance, Peter ...
Obama: More government school is the answer!
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Perhaps you've heard that the Savior of America and his Secretary of Education are proposing rules (edicts backed with explicit threats of murder) that would add hours to the school day and days to the school year. This is so typical of the simple-minded Statism that pervades Washington that I'm ...
Toy guns aren’t weapons
Saturday, May 16th, 2009I have difficulty believing anyone actually supports zero-tolerance policies and extreme political correctness anymore—anyone, that is, except government bureaucrats. By "extreme" I mean atrocities such as this, which any sensible person would be outraged at: NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. -- The latest case of zero-tolerance at the public schools has a 10-year-old ...
Educating for Anarchism, Blagnet.net edition
Friday, October 31st, 2008Mike over at nostate.com has an occasional post entitled Educating for Anarchism, in which he posts real life exchanges of his political beliefs with others. Below, you will find an exchange with my brother in a Facebook message thread (which sadly, is the best means he has of keeping in ...
Defeating their own arguments
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I'm surprised I haven't blagged about any of the posts on one of my new favorite libertarian sites, Rad Geek People's Daily, Charles Johnson's blag. He wrote a long and entertaining post about three rural-Minnesota 8th-graders who were suspended for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance. My favorite part of ...
Girl suspended for not pledging to the flag
Saturday, April 26th, 2008I give fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz a hard time on this website, but he introduced me to (what he referred to as) libertarianism, and it led to my adoption of pure libertarianism, so I should give him a little more recognition. He has several solid ...
Put your imagination to a useful end
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. —Frédéric Bastiat I wish Statists would apply their vivid and active imaginations to the moral, psychological, and economic benefits that we would reap if we lived in free societies, instead of to their tired, ...
California criminalizes home-schooling
Monday, March 10th, 2008I keep telling you, it IS happening here. Charles Johnson has some excellent commentary, as usual, on this.
Drugging unruly children is a method of social control
Friday, February 1st, 2008A letter to the editor of Nature this week strongly objected to the widespread and involuntary administration of Ritalin to children, and to a recent claim, published in Nature, that ADHD is heritable and very prevalent. Sir Sahakian and Morein-Zamir's reference to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as heritable and affecting 4–10% of ...
The testimony of Kevin Padian in Kitzmiller v. Dover
Monday, January 14th, 2008This is easily the most thorough presentation of paleontological evidence for evolution by natural selection and the most damning collection of evidence against intelligent design that I have ever encountered. I would, in fact, go so far as to describe it as beautiful. Two shortcomings of this biology lesson, however, ...