Tagged: education

‘Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?’ by Mark Edmundson

December 7, 2012 at 2:28 pm

In this essay, an important question is asked. Edmundson discusses what real education is, and how one must fight to obtain it and retain it. Here is an excerpt: Your professors will give you some fine books to read, and they’ll probably help you understand them. What they won’t do, for reasons that perplex me, [...]

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Philosophy as civic education in Brazil

February 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm

Erin McDonagh (Core ’08, CAS ’10), a member of the EnCore steering committee, writes: In this article by Carlos Fraenkel of Boston Review, we learn that Brazil’s public education policy has surprising stipulation: According to a 2008 law, students are required to study philosophy for three years in high school. The law is a political [...]

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Analects of the Core #89

February 25, 2011 at 5:51 pm

The 1940 Census had revealed that some 10 million Americans had not been schooled past the fourth grade, and that one in eight could not read or write. This, primarily, was a southern problem. A higher proportion of blacks living in the North had completed grade school than whites in the South. – Ira Katznelson, [...]

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