This article comes from Intellectual Takeout...writer is Annie Holmquist This is another in a series of articles we've found or written that attempt to recognize issues surrounding K-12 education today. After you've given it a read tell us what you think. Generally speaking, if there’s one thing that liberals and conservatives agree on it’s that America’s schools are in rough shape. A look at the results coming out of today’s schools only lends further credibility to this assertion. With the exception of economics, fewer than 40 percent of today’s high school seniors are proficient in any subject area. But while liberals and conservatives agree there is a major problem … [Read more...]
People Are Moving Faster… and Getting Dumber
This article ran on Intellectual Takeout. The writer's name is Joseph Pearce We all know Aesop’s fable about the Tortoise and the Hare but few of us really believe, in the real world, that slowcoaches like the tortoise have a cat in hell’s chance of beating those in life’s fast lane. Few really believe, with Milton, that “they also serve who only stand and wait”. Those who stand and wait get left behind, stupid. You snooze, you lose. Those of us who believe that time taken is time well spent are in a minority in our frantic and frenetic world. We are an endangered species. It is, therefore, refreshing to discover that even scientists are beginning to agree with us. Take, for … [Read more...]