Flag.Blackened.net | Long ago we should have given up the notion that there is some kind of divine right among rulers, that these political masters are cut from a different cloth than the rest of humankind. This fairy tale just doesn't wash. The presence of such jewels as Richard Nixon and Co. should cause even the most believing of today's believers to question the notion that members of the political class have particularly noble and generous characters and are possessed of angelic qualities lacking in the rest of humanity. The governing class is not an elite arising from the people ordained to save mankind from itself. If history should teach us anything, it is that the political class is composed basically of self-servers who thirst for power and privilege and who have found in government the perfect vehicle to achieve their purpose. They are not the noble denizens of this earth that you picture them to be.
Argusfest | The Indian boarding school movement began in the post Civil War era when idealistic reformers turned their attention to the plight of Indian people. The reformers believed that with the proper education and treatment Indians could become just like other citizens.
CNJOnline.com | A horrific local crime has again shown the folly of allowing a monopoly on providing the service of justice — a monopoly that arose, not by providing a superior service no one could beat, but imposed through destructive laws.
LarkenRose | It would be nice if the mythology about "the brave men and women of law enforcement," and the image of police that you see on TV and in movies, in some way resembled reality. But it doesn't.
Libertarianism.org | George H. Smith discusses how the educational system of Sparta influenced later advocates of state education. How Plato (history’s first great philosopher) wasn’t a fan of educational freedom and Aristotle explicitly repudiated the notion of limited government.
KentForLiberty.com | People who "go off" about capitalism amuse me. Generally, what they are upset about isn't capitalism, but "crony capitalism"/corporatism. Fascism.
RadGeek.com | Actions may be legal, or they may be illegal. Whether they are moral or not is a totally separate question. (When the law is wrong, lawbreaking is the right thing to do.) But while actions may be illegal, people are not. A person’s existence and life and worth aren’t reducible to the papers that they carry or the legal or political status that they have. If you’re talking about people that way, you ought to consider talking about them a different way. Referring to women or men or children or human beings by their legal status alone is dehumanizing and insulting to them; it is also coarsening and brutalizing for the person doing the referring. It encourages the worst in those who do it, and it justifies inhuman reactions toward those that it is done to. No human being is “illegal.”
JohnTaylorGattoTV | Tanya, Danica, Irena, what they represent to me is the promise locked up in all of us which institutional schooling steals. Schooling would have discouraged all three; from sailing around the world alone without proper training, from roaring around a race track at 226 miles an hour, from daring to believe that a funny looking Russian Eskimo without money or a patron could make her way alone to the United States and become a Super-Model.
In a seminal study on critical thinking and education in 1941, Edward Glaser defines critical thinking as follows “The ability to think critically, as conceived in this volume, involves three things: (1) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences, (2) knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning and, (3) some skill in applying those methods.
TragedyAndHope | The first step for reaching for an education is to mistrust what you most are certain of. It may survive but it needs tested not once, until you are exhausted from testing.
