All Things Expounded » Education http://www.allthingsexpounded.com A verbose experiment in blogness (if you want to deride it, call it AllThingsConfounded). Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:29:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Making A Difference In The World http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/2009/09/making-a-difference-in-the-world/ http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/2009/09/making-a-difference-in-the-world/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:55:22 +0000 admin http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/?p=801 The Lew Rockwell Show has recently featured a talk called “Making a Difference in the World” by Gary North. It’s given to students and contains some helpful advise for anyone who is planning for the future of their vocation.

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Psychologically, Pragmatism lobotomized the country’s intellectuals: John Dewey’s theory of “Progressive” education (which has dominated the schools for close to half a century), established a method of crippling a child’s conceptual faculty and replacing cognition with “social adjustment”. It was and is a systematic attempt to manufacture tribal mentalities.

(Philosophy: Who Needs It, Ayn Rand, Signet, 1994, p43)

]]> http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/2009/03/pragmatism-as-a-lobotomy/feed/ 20 The Education of Thomas Edison http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/2009/01/the-education-of-thomas-edison/ http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/2009/01/the-education-of-thomas-edison/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:53:39 +0000 admin http://www.allthingsexpounded.com/?p=110 Thomas Edison, the great inventor of the electric lightbulb as well as the phonograph, did not take well to “official” schooling. His mind often wandered, and his teacher was overheard calling him “addled” (confused).

To his mother’s credit, Mrs. Edison took charge and removed him from that situation. Thomas Edison noted that “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint”. She removed him from school and began homeschooling him.

Where would Thomas Edison, and the world which so greatly benefited from his invention, be if Mrs. Edison didn’t take such concern for her son and pull him out of a situation that was clearly not good. And where would we all be if such a act were illegal?

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