Education (Libertarian columnists)
Should it be "No Child Left Behind"? Is mandatory testing helping or hurting? Education is as hot a topic as ever.
Balderdashing Education Bashing
by John Kozy (centrist liberal libertarian)
Published: November 14, 2009
When Calvin Coolidge said "The business of America is business," he and very few if any others knew just how deep this sentiment would sink into the American consciousness. Now it seems apparent that the way business thinks has muscled every other kind of thought process out of the American mind. The unfortunate result is that if no business solution exists to an American ailment, it festers into an incurable American disease.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest in Higher Education
by John Kozy (centrist liberal libertarian)
Published: October 23, 2009
As an elderly, former university professor, I am deeply anguished whenever I come across shameful academic writing. Such writing not only exposes the inability of the writer but it exhibits the extent of decline in American university teaching and is a symptom of a decadent civilization. Institutions that employ these writers have abandoned the classical educational ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty for belief, greed, and exploitation. And not only Americans but the whole world is paying a horrid price for it.
Abolish the Federal Department of Education!!!
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution (libertarian)
Published: October 20, 2009
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it required no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson, 1787
One Billion Stimulus Dollars to Save California’s Universities
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: June 12, 2009
Tax cutting Republicans will not trumpet this, and tax-them-ever-more Democrats won't admit this, but over a billion dollars of President Obama's stimulus money is finding a happy home in California's universities. The scandal is not Governor Schwarzenegger's draconian cuts; it's that California's universities' unfettered growth grows unchecked for yet another season.
No “Change” in Education Policy Either
by Kenn Jacobine (libertarian)
Published: March 14, 2009
This past week President Obama made a major education speech in front of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
We Are What We Repeatedly Do
by Gary Wood (conservative libertarian)
Published: February 17, 2009
According to the words of Aristotle this is something we are unable to avoid. By our very human nature we become the people we are by continually doing the things we do. The founders understood this concept and we also should understand it.
Munger Responds to NC Education Forum 'Debate'
by Brian Irving (libertarian)
Published: September 19, 2008
NC Education: Everybody's Business -- except those who challenge the status quo.
Will Smith Meets with Anonymous
by Helen Parsons (libertarian)
Published: September 11, 2008
"I am not a Scientologist" says actor, despite using Scientology teaching methods at his school New Village Leadership Acaemy
How to Handle Fear-Mongering Transmitters and the Big Media / YouTube Fear Profiteers
by Nickalis N. Tower (libertarian)
Published: August 17, 2008
After being sent a 'Martial Law' email by a detroit Ron Paul admirer that I've never met, I thought I would give the public a chance to view the video and determine for themselves if this is simply more mass-distraction / fear-mongering, or is actually newsworthy. What happened next is I outlined my turnkey solution to help alleviate irrational fears in self and others.
The Universal Individual Pledge of Independence - The Silk Revolution Begins
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: August 14, 2008
The Silk Revolution offically begins, August 14th, 2008. Emma Goldman, 21-ARA Founder and Silk Revolution Founding Mother Issues this universal pledge of alligience, on the Anniversary of the beginnings of the armed revolt in Revolutionary Boston against tyranny, August 14th.
The New Emma Goldman Quotes : Volume 1 (Silk Revolution files)
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: August 13, 2008
Widely regarded men have espoused quotes deemed brilliant over the centuries. Emma Goldman seeks to make their Brilliant Quotes more Enlightening
The Good and the Bad of Mr. Steve Cohen's 'apology for slavery' via House Resolution 194
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: July 31, 2008
A.P. reporter Jim Abram's article of a day ago reveals some important (and encouraging) political developments. But Congressman Cohen's "apology for slavery" wasn't one of them.
The Ayn Rand Lovers and Haters : "The Golden egos loved her, the Clay Egos hated her."
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: July 30, 2008
Wisdom imparted by my beloved Aunt, in a personal letter to me. This is her letter, and my insights on it helped to answer a life-long puzzle of mine.
The Atlas Society and 'Open Objectivism' : A wrong choice of words.
by Nickalis N. Tower (libertarian)
Published: July 21, 2008
Dr. David Kelley and the Board of The Atlas Society announced that the 'east coast objectivists' would re-organize themselves under the term 'Open Objectivism'
Hello, I'm a friendly 21st Century American Loving Radical for Anarchy
by Emma Goldman (libertarian)
Published: June 7, 2008
How I, Emma Goldman, an Individualist-Feminist, participated in the moral 20th century radical anarchist community, and obsoleted my own 19th century notion of Anarchy, and created the Pro-American Radical Anarchism for the 21st century.
Reactionary Ranting, Reasoning and Relating It All
by Jahfre Fire Eater (libertarian)
Published: May 12, 2008
Stream of consciousness flowing from a website promoting the book The Five Languages of Love by Gary Chapman. Self-help de-constructed, Fire Eater style.
On Education
by Spencer Jayden (libertarian)
Published: April 27, 2008
If you want a Great Libertarian Awakening, you must precipitate one.
How the American Government is Destroying Education
by Nicola M (libertarian)
Published: March 12, 2008
Federally-imposed standardized tests and regulations on education are responsible for the decline of quality in America's schools.
The College Access and Cost Reduction Act
by Chuck Angier (libertarian)
Published: March 5, 2008
Loose, easy credit and $20 billion of taxpayer money is sure to increase the cost of higher education.
Will the Anti-Christ be Anti-Homeschool?
by Craig Treadwell (libertarian)
Published: February 20, 2008
In 1925, the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that “the fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.”
My Child Must be Left Behind!
by Taliesin (libertarian)
Published: February 2, 2008
From the perspective of a parent who has a disabled child. I see a fundamental flaw in the No Child Left Behind Act.
National Educational Assessment Rubbish
by Walt Thiessen (libertarian)
Published: September 26, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education is all aglow because 4th and 8th grade Math scores are two points higher than they were two years ago. They don't even want to consider the idea that intensive testing only proves that kids are learning to study for the tests, at the expense of their real educations.
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