Fabulous cheese. Elegant and complicated watches. Excellent engineering. Unflappable punctuality. Discreet banking. Nobel Prize winning scientists and engineers. These are just a few of the things that the tiny country of Switzerland is recognized for around the world. I am compelled this morning to ask what produces excellence in so many fields? The educational system …
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The Preservation of Liberty
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." - Thomas Jefferson The ancient Roman system of education called liberalia studia or "liberal studies" has been immensely influential on the modern world. In a nutshell, liberal studies are those which give a man …
A Nation of Nitwits? I think not!
Bob Herbert's recent column in the New York Times, "Putting our Brains on Hold," is a real wake-up call. In a nutshell, Herbert described the precipitous drop in quality of a U.S. education versus that of other developed nations over the last few decades. As a father of two young boys, I must say that …
Gregory Hake 