Monthly Archives: April 2011

What Is The Educational System That Would Empower An Explosion Of Virtue?

My friend, John, who is my age, 63, recently told me that he could count only two and one-half accomplishments in his life. Waa. I prepared this graph as an encouragement. Based on the wishful idea that under ideal conditions … Continue reading

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Progressives Should Push A Debate Over National Identity — Over Remembering Who We Are

The showdown over the federal budget is not a debate about money, it is a over our national character, a debate about how we see ourselves. I like the scene from “The Lion King” when the voice booms down the … Continue reading

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When Computers Are Billions Of Times More Intelligent Than Humans — What Should Be The Aims Of Education?

Ray Kurzweil has a wonderful view of the near future where disease and poverty disappear, where humans enjoy miracle after miracle enriching and elevating their lives, where the world itself is healed of environmental degradation and where death itself is … Continue reading

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