TOLSTOY AND ANARCHISM

Posted 71508 My old sociology tutor once remarked that people under 35 are advocates of social change, while people over that age tend to be keen on social control. Certainly there seems to be a general idea around that as the years go by people become more and more conservative in their thinking. Tolstoy is a clear exception to this rule; the older he got, the more radical he became. As a consequence in the last years of his life he consistently expressed a religious form of anarchism. Tolstoy's politics, which combined Christianity, pacifism and anarchism, has always been a source of disquiet to his many biographers, and to many Marxists too.. » read more

How a Motorist was Fined for Having a Parking Ticket...Beause the Traffic Warden Could not Tell the Time

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The Original Purpose of Public Instruction in American and Its Result

It would be fair to call Thomas Jefferson the father of public education in America. Though Jefferson’s writings on the subject seem to ignore the dubious history of state-sponsored instruction, they do reflect his desire that primary, secondary and higher education in America be dedicated to planting and nurturing the tree of liberty in every educated American heart. It was his hope that public school would not be compulsory but desirable; that each student be able to reach his educational goals and enter adulthood as a good citizen capable of fulfilling his self-determined purpose in life and; that students who show specific talents be awarded the opportunity to pursue them to their personally and socially beneficial limits. A proportionally-educated, maximally self-governing electorate, Jefferson reasoned, would be America’s greatest defense against tyranny. But Jefferson’s dream that generations of publicly-instructed Americans would preserve their own liberty in perpetuity has been co-opted by a fear-mongering, lie-propagating, corporately-controlled, liberty-usurping central government and its sycophants.. » read more

Campaign Exposes Teacher's Unions

June 26, 2008 America's teachers unions have a lot to answer for. An international comparison study found that the United States gets the least bang for the bucks it spends on education, putting the U.S. at 18th in reading (behind countries like Japan and Poland) and a dismal 28th in math. While they're always the first (and loudest) ones to demand more money for schools that don't teach kids anything, when it comes to promoting quality schooling or offering ideas for reform, the unions are nowhere to be found.. » read more

Watch Babies Read and LIsten to What Parents are Saying

Posted 6/18/08 TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: www.yourbabycanread. com/video-page.php#video. » read more

Erich Fromm Interview Excerpt (video)

Posted 6/2/08 Erich Fromm discusses different things, including the Having and being modes of orientation. TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GpHrdXOFI. » read more

QUOTES

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers..... » read more

The Boy With the Incredible Brain (video)

Posted 5/5/08 This is the breathtaking story of Daniel Tammet. A twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities, Daniel is one of the world’s few savants. He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. This documentary follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. He also meets the world’s most famous savant, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Oscar winning film ‘Rain Man’.. » read more

Pythagoras of Samos (560BC - 480BC)

"Through Vibration comes Motion Through Motion comes Color Through Color comes Tone" He was a Greek philosopher who was responsible for important developments in the history of mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. He founded the Pythagorean Brotherhood and formulated principles that influenced the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle. The influence of Pythagoras is so widespread, and coupled with the fact that no writings of Pythagoras exist today, this short article will attempt to guide the reader through the life of this most remarkable teacher. He traveled widely in his youth with his father Mnesarchus, who was a gem merchant from Tyre. His family settled in the homeland of his mother, Pythais, on the island of Samos, where he studied with the philosopher Pherekydes.. » read more

Local Heros: Seattle Teacher Suspended Fro Refusing To Give Standardized Test

April 22, 2008 PARENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK Carl Chew, a 6th grade science teacher at Nathan Eckstein Middle School in the Seattle School District, last week defied federal, state, and district regulations that require teachers to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning to students. "I have let my administration know that I will no longer give the WASL to my students. I have done this because of the personal moral and ethical conviction that the WASL is harmful to students, teachers, schools, and families," wrote Chew in an email to national supporters. School District response to Mr. Chew's refusal was immediate.. » read more

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