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Conquer a Classic This Christmas

Did you know it's a Christmas tradition in Iceland to exchange books for Christmas? To be specific, these books are exchanged on,...

Pin This Poem to Your Wall. Seriously.

I have little patience for poets. More often than not, my attitude towards this admirable artistic medium runs more along the lines of,...

Are Textbooks Just 'CliffsNotes' for History?

I'm currently reading Britton LaTulippe's Revealing School: Discover What School Is Really Doing to Your Kids , and one of his claims is...

Beauty and the Assembly Line: How Modernism Destroyed Classical Architecture

Why is classical architecture almost universally beautiful, while anything "modern" is some shapeless monstrosity of concrete, steel, and...

Why History Is Quickly Becoming the Most Important Subject

When I was a middle school history teacher, I sometimes felt like my class wasn’t as “important” as the others. The insecure corner of...

We Have a Major Problem.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have a major problem. Our education system is an incoherent hodgepodge of asinine theories,...