As Americans hurried into the opening of the 20th Century, most did not notice that the old ideas which ever fewer Americans were still being educated well enough in to understand, were being left ever further behind with each new reform, and with each…
“…They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is will shadowThe man that pretends to be…” T.S. Eliot, The RockWhile walking through the problem…
When you’re not sure whether or not you’re lost, you check your position and visible landmarks against a map. If your educational map doesn’t show an expected landmark of low graduation numbers with graduates who can’t or won’t read, or read only for i…
It’s that time again, to speak truth to the power of the woke folk who fail to give any thought to the discordant noise of their virtue signaling, in prattling on about wanting to change ‘Columbus Day’, to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ – time to update and …
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear.So…
Today is the 235th birthday of the United States Constitution. Peruse it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve. What was signed as completed upon this day, two hundred and thirty-three years ago, September 17th, 1787, by thirty-nin…
Last year, prior to marking September 11th, 2001, I noted that what most unified Americans before and after 9/11, has been our opposition to each other, and a general ignorance of the history and ideas that made America possible 225 years before that a…
How we came to accomplish so much less, with so much more, involves several popular buy-ins, first and foremost being the ‘good intentions’ we still share with our Founding Reformers (i.e.’go to school to get a good job’), which fundamentally changed …
As noted previously, the good intentions that our Founding Reformers had in mind when they began the movement towards reforming education in the late 1790s, had a lot in common with our own good intentions today, but those good intentions are just abou…
Two points before getting to my annual reposting of Calvin Coolidge’s speech on the “Inspiration of our Declaration of Independence”, and to the Declaration itself- the first, which I went into a little bit of detail here, is that the Declaration of In…
We’ve already noted the abundance of good intentions that patriots like Noah Webster, Dr. Rush, and Ben Franklin had when urging a ‘New!’ system of education upon us as a means to improve people and fit them to secure their new Republic, much of which …
From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, Philadelphia August 11. 1777:I wish to turn your Thoughts early to such Studies, as will afford you the most solid Instruction and Improvement for the Part which may be allotted you to act on the Stage of…
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumRemembering, once again… Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defense of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, dep…
Even if you haven’t paid close attention, you’ve heard about the issues surrounding education and school boards, locally and across the nation, concerning key issues, curriculum, and various excuses and evasions made for them. What triggered the contro…
What the establishment candidates running for FHSD school board are in agreement with each other upon, are why I’m voting for Adam Bertrand & Randy Cook in the Francis Howell School Board elections, on April 5th. If you watch our FHSD School Board …