51 Articles tagged with: Education

• The Atlas Society Asks Sam Sorbo: Are We Ready for Homeschool?

  By default, many parents are homeschooling now.  School closures have also raised questions about whether the high cost of government education is providing decent returns, given the all too often dismal results. The paradigm shift has some f… Read Article

• How Not to Argue on Facebook

  For Ayn Rand, an argument was the distinctive human banner, the banner of reason and persuasion.  Where brutes force, human beings argue, a distinction embodied in her famous description of man’s mind, which “may be hampered by others, it may… Read Article

• Are Pre-School Grad Celebrations Going Too Far?

  A mere five years after holding my newborn fraternal twin girls in my arms, I’ve just watched them graduate pre-school. When I was young, we marked the transition out of high school, college, and that was it. Has our culture—and I—gone too f… Read Article

• Would Ayn Rand Wear a School Uniform?

  My 5-year-old daughters were very excited. My wife had taken them to the craft store to buy T-shirts with sketches on them that they could color themselves with special markers. They couldn’t wait to wear them to nursery school to show their fri… Read Article

• How Does Brown U. Justify Racial Quotas?

  Today, I dropped by the office of my ophthalmologist. Although my eye glasses were broken, the first thing I asked the receptionist was: “Well, how did it turn out?”

  She shook her head. “Wait-listed,” she said. Her daughter—soon … Read Article

• Night of the Living DWEM

  1.       WE DEMAND the hiring of at least 10 additional tenure-track ethnic studies professors and a commitment to the retention of these professors, prioritizing underrepresented groups within the ethnic studies … Read Article

• Take Your Daughters to Work Day

  April 28 was “Take your daughters to work day,” and I did! (I hope all you parents took your sons along as well!) My five-year-old fraternal twins, Sophia and Allegra, went to the office with Daddy! What did I teach them about what Daddy does,… Read Article

• Giancarlo Ibarguen, in memoriam

  Giancarlo Ibargüen has passed away. Objectivism and liberty have lost a powerful ally and a great friend.

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• Living an Extraordinary Life | A profile of Lauren Zander

  The biggest moment of her life was about to arrive, and Katie Torpey didn’t even care. It was a Saturday night in Los Angeles, and Katie and her husband had dinner plans with friends. Katie, an award-winning screenwriter, was about to have h… Read Article

• Common Core: What are its roots?

  The Common Core is being adopted in state after state: it is a de-facto national K-12 curriculum. Is it improving public education or worsening it? Who funded the Common Core project? What businesses profit from it? Is it state-led? Does it nation… Read Article

• Marsha Enright and the Great Connections Seminars

  Colleges do a pretty good job of teaching calculus and the Krebs Cycle. They know how to test what you’ve learned. They grant diplomas, which can be important for finding a job. But do they teach you how to gain the knowledge and skills to tak… Read Article

• Organizing Objectivism on Campus

  Atlas Summit 2013-- Alexander McCobin, co-founder and president of Students for Liberty, discusses how to organize campus study groups and activism centered on Objectivism.

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• Community College: Educational Opportunity or Psychiatric Institution?

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- The notion rampant in the community college environment today is that everyone deserves the opportunity for a college education. And yet, as a result, community colleges today have an atmosphere rife with people who are eit… Read Article

• Lynda Weinman: Queen of the Triple Win

  Editor's note: This article was first published in The New Individualist magazine. Just 10 years ago 3G and Bluetooth were in their infancy; Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn’t exist; and there were no mobile app stores. Fast-forward to toda… Read Article

• Learning Liberty

  Photography by Danny Fulgencio

  She stood on a bank of snow with an outstretched hand and decades of hope. It had snowed for seven straight days and three-foot drifts lined the tiny town. The woman walked the streets every day, inching al… Read Article

• Start it Up!

  One decision can change so much.

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• The Postmodern Assault on Reason

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• Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism

  BOOK REVIEW: Jerry Kirkpatrick, Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education (Claremont, CA: TLJ Books, 2008), 212 pages, $18.95

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• Needy Children

  Question: As stated in another Q&A on this website, children that must be removed from their families should be cared for by "some private charity or adoption, because in these cases a stranger voluntarily accepts the responsibility for the … Read Article

• Free Speech and Postmodernism

  In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in different philosophical contexts, and they were often tailored to audiences hostile in varying degre… Read Article