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Category Archives: education
Response
Saturday, April 30, 2011
The disposition that moves some to outbursts of non-constructive, sometimes destructive criticism is too often a self-centered one and one that is grounded in fear. Who knows what the right response is in all cases—or whether or not there should always be a response. But it makes sense that a good response should [...]
On Categorical Cognition
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The scholar tends to place things in their separate categories of analysis and attempts to make statements about causality based on those distinctions.
But there is something about experiencing an event or events that is lost in the subsequent translation of those events. More often than not, experience–the ways in which events both process and get [...]
CRITICAL INPUTS
Thursday, March 17, 2011
I would like to direct readers to a paper I wrote several years ago on the issue of teacher quality. Here is the link.
Critical Inputs–An Economic and Historical Exploration of Teacher Quality
Also, here is a link to SB-736, the Florida Senate Bill on teacher merit pay and tenure which recently passed in the Florida House [...]
Willingness
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The very possibility of civilized human discourse rests upon the willingness of people to consider that they may be mistaken.
–Richard Hofstadter
The American Frontier, Empire, and Minding the Future
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
One of the most important yet least appreciated topics in American history (outside of academia) is that of the “frontier.” Long the purview of historians of the American West, it has reached a level of conversation that no serious historian of American culture and power (i.e., politics) can afford to ignore. There is a large body [...]
Power and History
Sunday, November 7, 2010
1.1 It seems that in periods of peril, confusion, and division, the best policy would be clear and direct communication.
1.2 However, modern societies do not explicitly make such accommodations. Indeed, the very idea of modernity is based on linguistic sleights and ironic jabs.
1.3 I can’t think of another period whose scientists, philosophers, and [...]
Normal
Friday, October 8, 2010
1. The idea of “normal” human behavior is historically contingent.
2. (Historical) ideas are not always accidental.
TS
COMMENTS
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Since starting this site, I have received a number of comments on various posts. However, because I now use the site primarily for educational purposes, I do not approve comments unless 1) they are substantive in content and 2) all parts of the comment, including author name and information, would be appropriate for young audiences. [...]
Liberal Education and Community in the Thought of Leo Strauss
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Like a number of his European contemporaries, Leo Strauss viewed the modern person as a being whose experience was primarily one of alienation from authentic identity, or “our true situation.” He held that the lack of engagement with this reality—that is, the lack of relationship based in the experience of this reality—inhibits meaningful dialogue. [...]