Education

The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. – AYN RAND

Revolutionizing Higher Education: The Lyceum at Clemson University

The Lyceum at Clemson University—inspired by Aristotle’s fourth-century school in Athens—is a new kind of academic department that seeks to revive the original vision and purpose of higher education: to inspire young men and women to pursue intellectual and moral excellence through a rigorous engagement with the great philosophic, historical, literary, and economic texts of Western civilization.

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Harvard Caves In To Student Mob

America, a country where even poor people live longer and better lives than almost anyone in history, has become a place where spoiled children paying $60,000 tuition consider themselves “victims.”

Justice Kavanaugh and GMU Snowflakes

Justice Kavanaugh and GMU Snowflakes

The 1215 Magna Carta limited the power of central government and it forced a reigning monarch to grant his English subjects rights. It laid the foundations for limited constitutional governments, an idea offensive to most leftists.

Spring Break in Caracas

Spring Break in Caracas

Although it may be difficult today for American socialist students to study abroad in places like Cuba or North Korea, they could lobby U.S. officials to facilitate it.

Education at a Crossroads: Part II

Education at a Crossroads: Part II

One of the most successful schools I visited was in an aging building in a rundown ghetto neighborhood in New York, where a friend told me that I was “brave” — he meant foolhardy — to park a car.