Educating Our Children

June 9, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats [and most of them are], those views can be described as leftist, socialist or communist. Continue reading →

May 31, 2018 – Jeffrey Howard …… Envision a school that is not compulsory or coercive, that is a completely student-directed educational environment, whose primary aim is to develop emotionally intelligent children who can live meaningful lives. Continue reading →

May 14, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Why are we so convinced that children learn through rigid curriculum? Continue reading →

April 30, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Colleges are admitting youngsters who have not mastered what used to be considered a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic. Continue reading →

April 6, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… True discipline is self-imposed. Continue reading →

March 26, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Creativity flourishes in freedom and shrivels with force. Continue reading →

February 12, 2018 – Peter Gray …… Schools will become moral institutions only when children are free to quit. Continue reading →

January 19, 2018 – Genevieve Simperingham …… However we treat our children, we are conditioning them to believe that this is what’s normal and acceptable in relationships. Our responses to our children can lift them up or put them down, empower or disempower them. We need to be very mindful of how we guide and lead them. Continue reading →

November 10, 2017 – Kerry McDonald …… To ask what a child wants to be when she grows up is to dismiss what she already is, what she already knows, what she already does. Our job is not to prepare our children for who they will become, but to help them be who they already are. Continue reading →