Some of you might be aware of the less “noble” origins of public schooling in America. Here is an illustration of early British attitudes toward it, from Bill Bryson’s At Home: Yet the idea of educating them (the masses) was treated almost universally with abhorrence. The fear was that educating the poor woudl fill them […]
Daily Archive for September 17th, 2011
Posterity
Health Care as a Right - Universal Health Care
That's Just a Silly Model, What About the REAL World?
Do You Hope that "Your Guy" Wins?
Economics Doesn't Apply to That
Clunk - The New Year's Ball Has Dropped
Raise Your Hand if You Are Morally Corrupt
Unscrupulous Middlemen and Feckless Citizens
Violence, Penury and Modern Society
Oranges are Not Oranges, They are Ideas
What Does Your Bumper Sticker Say?
The Right to Escape Oppression
Eat Your Heart Out Andrew Carnegie
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