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A Deeper Problem One day. One trip to Barnes and Noble. Two magazines. It was interesting to read the two articles within five minutes of each other. It really made me think. First came a piece in Psychology Today (April 2014) reviewing a groundbreaking new [...]
The Size of Dreams “Dad, why do teachers think their students should only have small dreams?” I just about choked on my bottled water. “What?” I sputtered. “Well, before I tell you, don’t make me quit the public school class I’m taking, okay?” I laughed. [...]
The New Name for the Conveyor Belt I got excited when the next reading in my day’s pile of news clippings was from Parents magazine, but the title made the corners of my mouth turn down just a bit: “School Discipline Gone Bad.” I almost [...]
The New Problem Time magazine and The Economist recently ran articles on education and career, and how the changing economy has made the current conveyor-belt style of schooling almost entirely obsolete—for everything except low-paying jobs. The Atlantic ran a similar article showing that American workers [...]
Stand Up! I read somewhere, I forget where, that the only people who ever get a truly great education are those who just plain stand up and demand one. They do this in spite of schools, bureaucracies, and the educational system—not because of these things. [...]
by Oliver DeMille Forbes recently released a list of 7 crippling parenting behaviors, and I found them very interesting. From the writings of Tim Elmore, as recounted by Kathy Caprino, these behaviors should at the very least make all of us stop and think. Here [...]
by Oliver DeMille “As Father had taught him, he did not believe the first explanation his mind leapt to. ‘It will often be right, and as you get more experience of life is will usually be right. But it will never be reliably right, and [...]
by Oliver DeMille The Libraries of Great Men I recently read an interesting and fun article by Jeremy Anderberg entitled “The Libraries of Great Men: Theodore Roosevelt’s Reading List.” It’s an excellent read. For example, Anderberg wrote: “Reading books by your ‘mentors’—even if they’re long [...]
by Rachel DeMille Beginning Again A favorite movie has a scene where one of the characters has lost his way, and, following the counsel of a trusted advisor, he goes "back to the beginning." It is there, he knows, that he will find his guide [...]
Discuss: How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st Century? How do we educate our children so that they have a sense of cultural identity? The problem is, we're trying to meet the future by doing what [...]
