Habits as strings in “Uncle David’s Nonsensical Story about Giants and Fairies”
“It is very important, Harry, to choose the best course from the beginning,” observed Lady Harriet. “Good or bad habits grow stronger […]
Principle for life: Let other people solve their own problems
Temple Grandin is the great apologist for “bottom-up thinking,” the practice of allowing the particulars on the ground to determine your thinking […]
Truth in fiction
Faced with our limitations and fallibility, there’s a temptation to reduce the truth to a technicality. So much of our culture is […]
The chains of habit
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken.” -Warren Buffett The punchy […]
Education for growth
The impulse of much of our culture when thinking about education is strangely reductive. We take a dismal and narrow view of […]
What about women’s education?
Having considered the heretical proposition that most women should consider foregoing schooling with a heavy emphasis on credentials and a narrowly focused […]
History of Women’s Education
Women’s education has varied greatly in different civilizations. A brief survey of the historical information available reveals that in many cases not […]
Self-government where it matters most
In the Little Town on the Prairie, the character of Laura Ingalls displays the kind of cognitive connection that homeschooling parents everywhere […]
Policing laughter, becoming less human
Since everything is individuated by matter and is placed in its genus or species through its form, the accidents that follow from […]
Childish and “addicted to innocence”
In a recent conversation on the podcast Anchored from CLT, Dr. Cornel West offers insight on the explosion of the childish and […]