The best description I have read of the thinking behind our public education system is Les déshérités (The Disinherited) by Francois-Xavier Bellamy, published in France in 2014. Bellamy traces the root of modern educational thinking to the philosophies of René Descartes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. René Descartes (1596-1650) believed that all knowledge could be attained by … Continue reading How did our education system get where it is today?
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The old days were not better
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. - the words of Solomon from Ecclesiastes 7:10 When I was young many waterways were horribly polluted. I once stood on a footbridge in Toronto and watched the Don River flowing blood … Continue reading The old days were not better
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