Sarah Palin: Do Not Run

Tea Party favorites are the flavor of the month in the Republican Party.Rick Perry is fired-up and fed up, yet his misfired in debate after debate.The candidate of the week per Ron Paul, Perry has waffled on issues and dismayed the high hopes of a disenchanted...

Why go to school — A reasonable reason?

Today, administrators charge that, "Students have to go to college. Students have to be trained for employment."Yet what they learn in school does not prepare them for working with different people, tolerate and discussing new ideas, facing problems beyond...

No Values in School — No Value to School

No values, no value system, no systemic anchor to channel why students come to school, and why they are learning what they are learning.Human capacity for learning demands that we can connect the dots of our experience to something greater than what is in front of us....

The School is not the Panacea for Society's Ills

Progressive Politicians from the turn of the Nineteenth Century until today believe that the public school is the best mechanism of socializing and preparing the youth of today for the workplace and home life tomorrow.Yet when teachers deal with students today, it is...

The State Cannot Educate

What business does the state have running education?The state micromanages teachers, students, and all attending staff into a system designed to make a far-off school board look good to upper-level bureaucrats in the state capitol.Students deserve to learn, not...