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Daily Archive for January 10th, 2013

Two Quick Education Links

1. They make teachers in training read, Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Ed School. 2. Home schooling seems to be on the rapid rise.

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Politics without Romance

Jim Buchanan has passed away. Here is Don Boudreaux’s short appreciation. James M. Buchanan, who died Wednesday at age 93, was one of history’s greatest economists. Though he won the Nobel Prize in 1986, Jim at heart was always a farm boy from Tennessee—an old-fashioned, hardworking American who disdained unearned privileges as well as deeply […]

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The Modern Conservative Movement

What, you thought I was going to talk about old, white, Republicans from the Bible Belt?  Here is a thought from Deirdre McCloskey: “The expert as expert, a bookish sort consulting what is already known, cannot by his nature learn anything new, because then he wouldn’t be an expert.  He would be an entrepreneur, a […]

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