Education

Bernstein blames John Dewey and his philosophy of Progressive Education for the decline in educational standards.

Is volunteerism actually good? Is service in slums and nursing homes a proper moral ideal that will galvanize the young, adding value and significance to their lives?

Andy had “mastered” the core principles of modern education too well.

The crisis in our schools is at heart a philosophical issue.

The physical and mind crippling hazards of government schools are only manifestations of a deeper problem.

Society’s greatest concern, claim the so-called humanitarians, is our children–who are suffering from inadequate nutrition, shelter and health care. Yet these same “humanitarians” are silent about the scourge destroying a child’s mind–his textbooks.

Mandatory community service for high school students presents a clear moral issue: By what right do we treat our sons and daughters as beasts of burden?

Do parents have the right to decide which friends or extended family their children will spend time with?

The egalitarian’s hatred of excellence has metastasized throughout the culture. In order to level everyone down to the lowest common denominator, egalitarians sacrifice the achiever. Nowhere is this more dramatic–and tragic–than in education.

President Clinton wants more money for education. He's proposed tax credits and deductions for college students and large increases in Pell Grants for needy students. Clinton would have us believe that not enough students have a chance to go to the nation's 3,600...

For years I've said that if the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, they couldn't find a tool more effective than the public school system in most major cities.The evidence of that tragedy continues. The latest is contained in a Philadelphia...

Maryland must be a very safe state, because it has time to prosecute a mother who is teaching her daughter at home. The little girl of 7 scores above the national average on tests given by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which leading colleges across the...