Today, as the kids go back to their studies and their parents breathe a sigh of relief (unless they are going back to their kids’ studies too), we think about education. . . .
Today, as the kids go back to their studies and their parents breathe a sigh of relief (unless they are going back to their kids’ studies too), we think about education. . . .
President Obama is going to address the nation’s school children today. Some parents are objecting. I don’t in principle. It would be a good custom for presidents, a patriotic exercise, an education in citizenship for the young tykes. I remember how in the days of
The Sunday Comics in the Washington Post has a feature in which kids write in with questions, usually science related, and the cartoonist answers them, usually with some kind of fun experiment. This week the question some kid asked was something like this: “Since we
Some of you in that education-related post of a few days ago, expressed concern about homeschooling that many parents do not know enough about certain subjects to teach them to their children, who would do better to learn them from teachers who are the experts.
Happy Vocation Day! Today used to be called Labor Day. (Incredibly, you can still find people who are isolated and out of touch that still call it that.) But thanks to a crusade sponsored by this blog and the activism of its readers, we have
A couple of years ago, I wrote a brief article on the doctrine of vocation for Modern Reformation. It explains what the doctrine is, in its different manifestations–including the Four Estates–and why this teaching is so important. The opening paragraphs: “Justification by faith alone” is
I guess I can justify plugging my book on Vocation, seeing as how it is Vocation Day. Go to the right panel of this blog. Notice that we have a whole section devoted to “Books on Vocation.”
You will perhaps recall The great tomato ideological experiment, in which I planted a hybrid tomato, exemplifying the achievements of free market conservatism, and a heritage tomato, exemplifying traditionalist conservatism, which I turned into a the great tomato parable. The hybrid tomato was far more
Joseph Bottum at the First Things blog site discusses a court ruling against home schooling that posits a new requirement for education: A divorced couple’s irreconcilable differences make what seems a very bad occasion for legal decisions with serious First Amendment implications. But that’s what
Music reviewer Dave McKenna puts his finger on an odd phenomenon that tells us a lot about the music industry and pop culture. In a review of a Keith Urban concert, he writes, You’d have to go back to Glen Campbell to find a pop-country
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