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The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with yo...

The Darwinian will not condescend to argue with you.  He will inform you of your ignorance; he will not enlighten...

posted on: Oct 26, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

They cannot convince the mind, but they do cloud i...

Just as it is the latest fad [of Freudian psychoanalysis] to prove that everything is sexual, so it was the last fad...

posted on: Oct 25, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Know-it-all agnostics

Speaking of Darwin, Marx, and Freud, G.K. Chesterton quipped: It is yet another mark of this sort of agnostic that he...

posted on: Oct 21, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Tossing out Darwin, Marx, and Freud

As noted in a previous post, Chesterton said our real task today is uneducating the educated.  We could make a good...

posted on: Oct 20, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Uneducating the educated

[Our primary public duty] is not to educate the uneducated but to uneducate the educated. G.K. Chesterton, The...

posted on: Oct 15, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Unenthusiastic educators

It is rare to come across anyone enthusiastic for our system of elementary instruction.  It is not common to find...

posted on: Oct 14, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Dealing with nonsense

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world.  One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when...

posted on: Oct 12, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

The parent, the person in charge of education

In the case of comparative poverty, which is the common lot of mankind, we come back to a general parental...

posted on: Sep 21, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

Properly conducted, a person’s education mak...

In Milton’s view, education is not what people so often reduce it to — completing a certain number of...

posted on: Sep 6, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

The school is only preparation for the home

Just now there is a tendency to forget that the school is only a preparation for the home, and not the home a mere...

posted on: Sep 3, 2010 | author: Alan Burrow

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