The Cancer of Tyranny

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." - Plato The Greco-Roman tradition provided an educational algorithm that has never really been improved upon. In fact, every major movement of educational reform in the Western world began with a reassessment of the …

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Beware of unintended side-effects

The technology of our era is allowing ideas to spread around the globe at incredible speeds. Good ideas, bad ideas, truths and lies spread like viruses on steroids, capable of leaping oceans in milliseconds and infecting millions if not billions of people simultaneously. Take the 2006 FIFA World Cup, for instance. The 2006 tournament was …

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