Here’s a question no one is asking. Which, public health or public education, should receive the lion’s share of tax payers’ dollars? Or are the education of our children and young people and the health care of our citizens equally important, equally deserving of our resources? Frame the question in anyway you like. Should my [...]
Archive for January 1, 2009
Public Health and Public Education
January 1, 2009“instead of an aristocracy of wealth”
January 1, 2009Thomas Jefferson proposed “instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger, than benefit, to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society, and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions….” What we have now [...]
Teaching Magic
January 1, 2009“Belief in ‘a teaching magic’ relieves students of the burden of wanting to be taught.” (Jacques Barzun)
