This is part of a mixed series between my Substack and this website, complete with a jumbled posting order. Go here for the first in the series (I, II). The next article in Islander #5 is an intriguing argument by
If nothing else, this book helps explain why reactions (and thus emotions) seem so much the substance of American national discourse at the moment, how people are so extraordinarily incapable (to appearance) of inhabiting and considering others’ viewpoints. They have,
Part I covered the center point of Iserbyt’s book (Skinnerian, Behaviorist education- education which is actually intended to program people, producing reactions rather than inculcating decision-making). Part II covered several of the subsidiary points of the work,1 including US entanglement
Last week’s introduction to this 4-part series1 focused on Iserbyt’s main thesis: the morphing of the American education system, particularly its governmental elements, into a Behaviorist, input-output system designed to produce people that react rather than think. Today, we’ll go
Sometimes a book recommendation sits un-followed for months before you get to it. Sometimes, five minutes after registering it, you find out that the PDF is offered by the author’s website, for free (which is good, because the print version
Originally Published Here on Truthwire Education is an inherently values-oriented endeavor. You look at your kids and say, “I want them to be virtuous, happy, clear-minded adults, capable of overcoming the intellectual, social, and moral problems they face.” Then you
Originally Published Here on Truthwire The principle of constitutionally limited government might as well not exist, to hear most politicians talk. The question is not ‘What do I have the authority to do?’ but ‘What do I have the power
Originally Published Here on Truthwire (with extra context) Montgomery County, Maryland, is not the textbook conservative county. With 11% employed by the federal government and another 9% by local government, its demographic suggest rather the opposite- as does its proximity
Government has been involved in education for just a little while. In proof of this, I cite Daniel 1:3-4, which reads, “Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel… to stand in