Like many other Canadians... I am disturbed at the apparent indifference of the experts to the disappearance of the old-fashioned concept of the "educated person" who chose to rest his reputation on his bearing and his conversation, rather than on degrees and "research". Conversation is, no doubt, one of those rather exclusive recreations indulged in … Continue reading The decline of education
So Little for the Mind
Illiteracy in Elementary and Secondary Schools
[The decline in the public education system did not begin yesterday. These paragraphs are excerpted from a book published more than 60 years ago. The difference today is that most people accept this as normal – they don’t remember a time when things were different. First posted seven years ago.] Is it possible that this timidity, this … Continue reading Illiteracy in Elementary and Secondary Schools
Flatlander Faith 