Monthly Archives: June 2009

Why I read Ibsen

[I grew up in a grimy little industrial town called Danville, Illinois. It wasn’t until I was four years old that I stumbled onto an atlas and discovered why I had felt so much out of place from the day of my birth. I graduated from Danville High School two years early — and left […] Continue reading

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Q: Why is taxpayer-funded education in the United States so poor? A: Johnny can’t read, but he sure can vote…

TCSDaily: It goes beyond a failure to find ideas that increase education; many have embraced ideas that are clearly destructive. Our experts really don’t seem all that interested in education as most people understand this term. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography, for example, don’t seem to be priorities. What we see in education makes sense […] Continue reading

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