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There’s No Medical Reason for Keeping Schools Shut

August 11, 2020

Keeping schools closed, as many teaching unions want, will cause more injuries and deaths to children and long-term damage to their educations. Yet the threat from Covid-19 to them – and to their teac…

Shifting Business Models of Higher Education

July 28, 2020

Opinion

I suspect some colleges and universities will go under in the wake of COVID 19, as they faced with bankruptcy and are having to deal with lower enrollments too. It might be a good time for military re…

Substandard Education in America

November 12, 2019

Opinion

We know all the criticisms. China’s children are taught only to memorise and not to think or question. They are rote-learning robots without capacity for original thought. They know only how to produc…

The Higher Education Scam

September 11, 2019

Opinion

In the 1930s about 2% of young people in the United Kingdom went to university. That figure is now approaching 50%. In which era was it more of a distinction? It is patent that a degree has become dec…

Universities are Masonic Brain Washing Machines

September 6, 2019

Opinion

I'd only send my son to university if he had no talent. The modern university is not devoted to truth, quite the opposite. Feminist and homosexual shibboleths are rampant on campus but they are only s…

The Power to Oversee the Education System, A Historical Timeline from the Prussian Empire to the Rockefeller Dynasty

September 3, 2019

Opinion

Throughout history, the idea of those in power to oversee the education system started in the 16th Century. The history is complex and is rarely mentioned. The formation of the American public educati…

A College “Education” has Little to Do With Education

April 20, 2019

Opinion

An old friend of mine, who taught political science for 25 years at the University of Colorado, was known to tell his students that the real reason they were there was to marry people from the ri…

Education and the Dismantling of the Mind

February 1, 2019

Opinion

Are there any States in the Union that allow public schools to opt out of providing sex education to children? Of course, a counter-argument would be made that, although there was once a time when our…