The biggest mistake I see parents make is to assume that schools (public, private, whatever) can replace their own responsibility to ensure that their children learn to think.
CULTURE
College Education Bubble: Government Subsidies Raise College Tuition Prices
By making it so easy for students to gain loans, colleges are free to raise their tuition year after year.
The Pope and Castro: Brothers in Social Ethics
The central principle unifying both Catholicism/Christianity and Communism is the same: Your life does not belong to you. It belongs to forces other than — “greater than” — yourselves.
Blaming The Victim: Violent Assaults on School Teachers
The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there’s a change in what’s acceptable behavior and what’s unacceptable behavior.
Free Education From Government Control
Parents, students and teachers in the marketplace, acting freely, imaginatively, creatively and rationally, will solve the problem of education for far less money and without all the government interference, rigidity and politics.
God’s Will, Secular Government and Gay Marriage
If you don’t like the fact that the government is now issuing marriage licenses to adult humans of the same gender, then don’t work in a government marriage licensing bureau.
Capitalism and Culture
There will be no real and lasting political-economic improvement until the metaphysical, epistemological, and moral principles underlying capitalism are firmly grasped and understood in a first-handed way by at least a sizable minority of the intellectuals.
This Labor Day Celebrate Man’s Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
Keeping It Real: A Review of Killing Cool
Harmless fantasy has its place, but a life of fantasy creates a multitude of problems.
Why Home Schooling?
In terms of academic achievement, home-schoolers beat out their public school counterparts.
Living Without Lies: On The Nature Of A Liberal Arts Education
C. Bradley Thompson speaks to the incoming class of Lyceum Scholars on the nature of a liberal arts education.
“Diversity” as The New Academic Fascism
Benefactors should stop giving money to universities that endorse anti-free speech and racist diversity policy. Simply go to a university’s website. If you find an office of diversity, close your pocketbook.
Thomas Sowell’s Random Thoughts for August 2015
Random thoughts on the passing scene.
John Stuart Mill: Setting Liberals on the Road to Socialism
One of the great voices for personal liberty was that of the British economist and political philosopher, John Stuart Mill. His essay, “On Liberty,” though penned well over 150 years ago, is a classic statement that the individual should be respected in his right of...
Academic Fascism in America
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Free speech is a basic tool for indoctrination, propagandizi…
Happiness of Work
Only one value can serve as the central purpose in a person’s life: productive work.
The Washington Redskins Have Displeased Our Rulers
Not only does government now routinely enforce politically correct doctrine, defined as what’s either offensive or pleasing to the rulers in charge. It now enforces authentic and real individual rights selectively, based on political considerations.
Movie & Blu-Ray Review: Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997)
Strand Releasing’s 1997 documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, is, in retrospect, a cinematic achievement. The 143-minute movie debuts on Blu-Ray on July 28. Other than a new trailer and enhanced English SHD sound, this is the same product as the...
Pragmatism is Impractical in the Long Run
Why does it rule in business?
Video: In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice Is Unjust and Destructive
When you hear the word selfishness, what comes to mind? Typically, selfishness is associated with amoral, predatory behavior. It’s a word used to describe people like Bernard Madoff or Attila the Hun. On the other hand, selflessness is generally celebrated and aligned…
Looking Back
The New York City schools were among the best in the country in those days, better than they had been for the European immigrants before me and much better than they would be for the mass influx of blacks from the South after me.
A Legacy of Cliches
Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliche of “a legacy of slavery.”
Heroes, Villains
Weirdly, few monuments honor these life-saving scientists. Instead, politicians celebrate politicians.
Hard Goals: The Science of Extraordinary Achievement
There are, however, many mistakes you can make in goal-setting that will delay and hinder you and make your goals harder to achieve. This book points out these pitfalls and how to avoid them.
The Pope Adopts The Religion of Environmentalism
What does it tell you about environmentalism that it needs the Pope to prop up its campaign against capitalism and human achievement on earth?
Culture and Social Pathology
If it were only the economic decline threatening our future, there might be hope. It’s the moral decline that spells our doom.
“Micro-Aggression” As An Excuse for Micro-Totalitarianism
Word games are just one of the ways of silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead of debating them.
Movies: Tomorrowland Lacks Imagination
“Walt Disney loved showing how stuff works. No one in this movie plausibly would have the curiosity for new knowledge and reverence for the manmade to look twice at a futurist attraction at Tomorrowland, except possibly Laurie’s villainous character.”
Improving Black Education
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called the Nation’s Report Card, nationally, most black 12th-graders’ test scores are either basic or below basic in reading, writing, math and science.
Why Are U.S. Schools Mediocre? Ask the Kids
If you want schools to do better, get the government the hell out of schooling. But that’s only a start. Next, put the task of reason and intelligence into education itself — with the central and overriding goal of education being a well-trained mind.
Liberty & Property
The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.
Pragmatism Is An Impractical Philosophy for Business
Pragmatism is widely considered a virtue in business, but it is in fact a perilous approach, antithetical to long-term profitability.
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