I used to dread reading philosophy and to some extent I dread it still. Not just German philosophers like Johann Herder and Georg Hegel, mind you. All philosophers. As I plowed through Herder and Hegel for this class, I observed that, while these authors have written dense sentences, they are not impossible to comprehend. Of […]
Read more "The History of History 6: The Classics in Our Schools?"As the big brother of two Oklahoma students, I’m disappointed in their education. With only 36 percent of Oklahoma fourth graders proficient in math, and an even more dismal 30 percent proficient in reading, our students are lacking nationally. For those that say, “They get better as they get older, right?” Wrong. By the time […]
Read more "Oklahoma, Where Education Standards Get Swept Down the Plains"This article was originally published in The Daily Pulp on June 9, 2014. “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” ― George Orwell, Politics and the […]
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