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Monday, May 05, 2008

Freedom of Speech at Dartmouth

Islamic madrassas, where students memorize the Koran, are different only in degree from much of what is laughably called higher education in our high-priced Ivy League schools.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 05/05 at 09:32 PM
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Monopolizing Poor Education

Public elementary and high schools suffer from lack of competition.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/16 at 10:06 PM
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Do Your Children Belong to You, or to the Political State?

Read It Takes a Village to Raise an Idiot: California and Parental Rights on the Intellectual Conservative website.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/10 at 01:37 PM
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Re Schools: A Reader Reaction

Reader Mark Kelcourse’s comments give us a front-line perspective on why Schools Are Bad and Will Get worse.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/09 at 10:49 PM
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

Liberal-Progressive Mind Control

Socialism, of which liberal-progressivism is the American sect, is more than control of the economy.  Most importantly it is mind-control through the public education system.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/08 at 09:53 PM
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Schools Are Bad and Will Get Worse

The nation’s teachers colleges, impregnable bastions of John Dewey’s progressive education, stifle local efforts to give our children better futures.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/04 at 11:38 PM
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Out-of-Touch Teens

It’s not their fault.  The blame lies at the feet of our nation’s liberal-progressive educators who have followed John Dewey’s progressive education dictum that there is no place for history in modern education for socialism.

Read about the results.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/26 at 05:32 PM
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Education for Slavery

Aristotle spoke of people who, by their natures, are slaves.  American educators are doing their best to make slavery part of their students’ natures.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/26 at 04:48 PM
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

What College Tuition Buys

Parents should think twice before spending a fortune to send their children to the grotesqueries that pass for higher education.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/12 at 02:09 PM
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Monday, January 14, 2008

Slouching Toward Tehran

Academic lickspittles aim to implement the Democratic Party’s foreign policy of appeasing our enemies: see no evil and take no action.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 01/14 at 02:57 PM
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