People despise Christian faith. They hate it and are afraid that it may be true. -Blaise Pascal Pascal wrote these words at the beginning of the scientific era. All attempts made during succeeding years to disprove Christianity by scientific means have been motivated by this fear. For, if Christianity is true, if there really is … Continue reading Theory, hypothesis, fallacy
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Lost, Forgotten and Suppressed History – The Huguenot origins of Québec
The first explorers and settlers of New France were Protestants. This is not something I learned in school; I don’t think it’s being taught even today, the Catholic church having almost succeeded in expunging all mention of Protestants from the collective memory of the Québecois people. The Reformed Church in France seems to have begun … Continue reading Lost, Forgotten and Suppressed History – The Huguenot origins of Québec
Book review: Hold On to Your Kids
Hold On to Your Kids: Why parents need to matter more than peers, by Gordon Neufeld, © 2004. This book is for parents who feel their children are slipping away from them. Doctor Neufeld is a child psychologist in Vancouver, B.C. who believes that parents need to be the strongest influence in the development of … Continue reading Book review: Hold On to Your Kids
Book review: BRINGING UP BÉBÉ
This is my review of the book, Bringing up bébé, by Pamela Druckerman, an American living in Paris with her English husband, one daughter and twin boys. Ms. Druckerman was shocked to discover that all that she thought she knew about child training, learned in the USA, was considered bizarre and impractical by mothers in … Continue reading Book review: BRINGING UP BÉBÉ
Five Reasons NOT to go to University
1. You won’t learn any useful work skills. Employers are looking for people who are articulate, literate, numerate and willing to serve. They find that most university graduates are lacking in these qualities. A large proportion of university graduates test as functionally illiterate. 2. You will learn to party. That will not be a useful … Continue reading Five Reasons NOT to go to University
Look for More Troubles
Be thankful for the troubles of your job. They provide about half your income. Because if it were not for the things that go wrong, the difficult people you have to deal with, and the problems and unpleasantness of your working day, someone could be found to handle your job for half of what you … Continue reading Look for More Troubles
Prophetic words from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, whose writings revealed the sordid underside of the communist system, was expelled from the USSR in 1974. In June, 1978 he was asked to give the commencement address at Harvard University. I don't know what they expected to hear, but here are some excerpts from what they did hear.) Harvard’s motto is … Continue reading Prophetic words from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Heretical View on Higher Education
When I was a school boy, my parents, and the parents of my friends, would tell us, “Stay in school, get a good education, so you won’t have to work as hard as we did.” That was in the 1950’s, our parents had lived through the dirty thirties, the years of the Great Depression and … Continue reading A Heretical View on Higher Education
Learning versus Education
I found the wooden alphabet block with the letter I wanted and added it to the row that was beginning to spell my name — R O B E R T G O O D N . . . I needed one more O. I carefully rotated each of the blocks I had not used, … Continue reading Learning versus Education
Flatlander Faith 