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Tag Archives: education
Who Killed Homer?
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom© 1998 Victor Davis Hanson290 pages For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the … Continue reading
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Blacks Rednecks and White Liberals© 2005 Thomas Sowell360 pages Thomas Sowell’s provocatively-titled Black Rednecks and White Liberals casts a critical eye toward conventional understandings of race, class, and history, collecting a half-dozen extensive essays in one volume. Although each essay … Continue reading
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Tagged conservative, education, essays, Germany, historiography, Judaism, race, slavery and rebellion, Thomas Sowell
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The Working Poor
The Working Poor: Invisible in America© 2004 David Shipler352 pages “Like my daddy used to say — ‘Son, life’s hell to pay for when you’re poor — cause always just outside the door’s another Hard Time.’” (Jerry Reed) The … Continue reading
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Tagged education, family, housing, labor, marriage and family, poverty, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Disappearance of Childhood
The Disappearance of Childhood©1982 Neil Postman177 pages Television is killing your children — conceptually. In 1985, Neil Postman penned Amusing Ourselves to Death, in which he, building off of the lesson in Technopoly that technology changes our culture without our knowledge, … Continue reading
The Unschooling Handbook
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom© 1998 Marry Griffith240 pages What does it mean to educate a child? In the United States, schooling is dominated by standards, by regular exams that force educators … Continue reading
Crunchy Cons
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of counterculture conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican party) © 2006 Rod Dreher 272 pages … Continue reading
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Tagged children, civic activism, conservative, education, food, food and drink, gardening, marriage and family, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, Rod Dreher, sacramental living
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The Plain Reader
The Plain Reader© 1998 various authors, edited by Scott Savage272 pages What really matters? Such is the question explored by the contributing authors of The Plain Reader, a collaboration between Amish and Quaker communities to express how living simply allows … Continue reading
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Tagged children, education, energy, essays, health/wellness, mindfulness, philosophy, self reliance, simple living, social criticism, Society and Culture
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