Thucydides

beautifully dramatized

Revisado: 10-07-22

Classic touching and moral tale to be read before Little Men. This is the backstory. Little Men goes on to illustrate the bit of good that can be taken from a few insights of Rousseau's Emile, but arranged around a core of Christian and Platonic Goodness as to redeem progressive education from the Hell to which it usually leads.

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History worth hearing regardless of politics

Revisado: 07-29-22

Those who speak are eloquent, speaking with charm from the heart of what a great and optimistic leader they experienced in Reagan. It's worth your time regardless of your politics.

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can an elementary school textbook destroy a soul?

Revisado: 01-13-22

Yes, children are in a cave, indoctrinate by ideology in schools so young that the sources are long forgotten. This may be even more so today, when we look to an elementary school textbook to teach, say, how to write well, we instead get amateur philosophy. Our children become "change agents," irreverent radicals that despise tradition to the ultimate detriment of their own happiness. How did this happen? Look closely at their elementary school textbook with Lewis as your guide. Your eyes may be opened.

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necessary reading for all political sides

Revisado: 08-06-21

well articulated on the full range of political thinkers, including poets. Kirk helps elevate political discussion on all sides of the recurring issues of how to get along with one another and make life more worth living.

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beautifully written, but Adolescent and shallow

Revisado: 07-21-21

I would not read this one again. pseudo profundity, uninspiring, popular Machiavellian morality, meaningless. I can see how it appeals to a certain secular taste.

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lovely collection about education and history

Revisado: 04-28-21

Every short essay had nuggets of wisdom. I'll listen another time or two. Great stuff.

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Revisionist history, Left wing, Narrow, Banal

Revisado: 02-14-21

if you like your history unabashedly politicized on the political Left and don't like your closed mind challenged, this book is for you.

It leaves out a serious engagement with all sides of Canadian identity, and it does not engage with the full fruitful tensions that makes for the best history writing. The "neo-liberals" are the enemy, nationalism becomes "nationalisms," there is complete silence on pro-life perspectives of the abortion debate. I could go on. So much is left out. Banal.

This will quickly become a dated book on account of the author's mind being entirely enslaved to the merely ephemeral opinions of the narrow and uneducated prejudices of his own time. It is not good history; not a great book. don't waste your time.

If you can find nothing better, then hold your nose and use this book to glean some chronological facts of Canadian history. It could provide a sophisticated reader a glimpse into the cramped narrowness of the shadows of a closed-mind. But you get this from any newspaper or merely popular blog. It is Left-wing political revisionist "history," quickly dated pulp.

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Good clear balanced advice

Revisado: 12-13-20

I'm glad I took the time to read this. It helps me separate the charlatans from the solid researchers. This book would make the next generation a better place if only it were required reading for not just teachers, but educational researchers most of all.

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A classic, applicable even more to screens today

Revisado: 10-14-20

Curriculum should be entertainment? the medium dictates the sort of message given? relevant as ever.

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Content is important in Education?

Revisado: 06-14-20

Surprising insights that could make education better. along with Seven Myths About Education, this is necessary reading for teachers and parents. We need to being education back to sensible policies before it is too late.

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