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fun with samuel blumenfeld and creationism
I recently discovered the educational-related articles of Samuel Blumenfeld, a proponent of teaching reading with old-style phonics and an opponent of secular schooling. He’s been great fun. He’s quite at home discussing the nature of public schooling and the philosophies that have driven its architects. One of the themes that appears repeatedly in his essays [...]
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evolutionary psychology and folk economics
Toban Wiebe uses the traditional evolutionary theory of human origins to explain whence came the odd set of biases that he collectively refers to as “folk economics,” and which are provide an endless font of ignorance for economists to try to stem. I just thought one addition was in order: because the goal of the [...]
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some creation-evolution debate stuff
I was, earlier today, reading Joel’s thoughts on homeschooling and evolution. He handled the issue much more fairly than many liberals, some of whom have said ironically that allowing the Creation Museum to continue to exist threatens free speech (!). He has simply stated that children should be allowed to look at multiple viewpoints, which [...]
the sort of history book i’d like to see