“Toddler conversion kits”

A subscriber to the Georgetown Forum, a Washington DC website, is offering “Toddler Conversion” kits. The editor of this blog is not entirely sure how these work, but he is nonetheless hailing this invention as one of the greatest breakthroughs in the last two hundred years. The idea has to be this: in minutes you …

Continue reading ‘“Toddler conversion kits”’ »

About English boarding schools

The boarding school is a particularly British institution. Even though child welfare is taken seriously now and schools try to stop bullying, the old horrors of boarding have still not been banished, and there is a “surge” of criminal cases against boarding schools, whether for past or current misdemeanors is not clear. Even if you …

Continue reading ‘About English boarding schools’ »

Higher education: the humanities and social sciences in crisis

American higher education is sick, especially in the social sciences & the humanities, the subjects that are needed to give direction and moral guidance to the natural & physical sciences. Today the graduate schools are obsessed with “research” ….. which is irrelevant to what the vast majority exposed to it will be doing for the …

Continue reading ‘Higher education: the humanities and social sciences in crisis’ »