Make a claim that words will failBut know it is our certain dueTo circle out what must turn inUntil that weighted word is found That holds the moon’s countless tides That drags and pulls the…
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On Education (Redux)
I’ve been pondering what it is schools do and what it is I can imagine they might do instead. So you might gather from that statement that I do not agree with our current educational…
Coerced Silence
In some post somewhere near the beginning of my blogging with an intentional focus on “education,” in attempts to define and understand it as a social system as well as in attempts to discover the…
The Locus of Measurable Social Replication: Opt OUT and Make It New
Public schools are, like America, relatively new in history. Especially schools as conceived as a public “good” available to all children. But one can readily argue that men in power never conceived of schools as…
Better Angels on Black Ships: Is There Evidence of Moral Progress?
Update Below: Pinker in 2000 Steven Pinker, language guru, descendant and somewhat apostate of Chomsky, has written a book about the “progress” of human morality measured via a reduction of wars and war casualties called…
Chastening Dissent: The Vulgarity of the Commoners
I’m sure you’ve seen the news that a teen tweeted her opinion that the Gov of Kansas “sucked,” including a hashtag #heblowsalot, but if not, here’s a news report from CNN, “Kansas governor apologizes for…