collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
collection of interesting reads to provoke thought and provide fodder for conversation.
We are teaching kids how to write all wrong — and no, Mr. Miyagi’s rote lessons won’t help a bit–Knowing this might make one tempted to give up altogether. Perhaps it’s simply impossible to teach students to write in today’s world. Maguire suggests we have indeed given up on the task, claiming that the “composition profession evades the teaching of writing,”...
Malcolm Gladwell on Why We Shouldn’t Value Speed Over Power–Not even Roger Federer could be a great tennis player without a coach, without a place to go and play tennis, without parents who drive him there. Roger Federer, for years, was known for having a terrible temper. At the beginning of his career he was thought to be someone who would never amount to true...
Why men rape–Such was the lamentable state of affairs when the feminist activist Susan Brownmiller introduced her ground-breaking feminist work on rape Against Our Will (1975) with the dictum: ‘[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.’ Brownmiller dispensed with any trace of...
The Unique Tensions of Couples Who Marry Across Classes–Marriages that unite two people from different class backgrounds might seem to be more egalitarian, and a counterweight to forces of inequality. But recent research shows that there are limitations to cross-class marriages as well. www.theatlantic.com Detroit\’s Golden Age Left Us a Limited Supply of...
The long, steady decline of literary reading–The percentage of American adults who read literature — any novels, short stories, poetry or plays — fell to at least a three-decade low last year, according to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, 43 percent of adults read at least one work of literature in the previous year. That's the...