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 […]
The benefits of bottom-up thinking
Temple Grandin teaches animal science after a storied career in the meat industry. As a woman with autism, she has also become […]