After we finished installing our youngest son in his Freshman dorm room, he pushed us out so fast he nearly strained us through the keyhole. He hustled us off the way your immune system rejects a disease, the way a sovereign nation rejects an invading army, the way Jennifer rejected Brad when she found [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘education’
03/14/2009
My So-Called Adult Life
Despite the fact that I am a fully-qualified High School graduate with more than two decades of actual post-high school life experience, the vast, shadowy educational conspiracy has never asked me to speak at a graduation. They’re afraid of what I might say and they were right to fear. Given a microphone and [...]
03/19/2008
Let’s Give Mom Some Credit!
According to the excessively capitalized and exclamation-point-laden e-mail I received last week, I! CAN EARN A DEGREE! RIGHT NOW! FOR WORK EXPERIENCE I’VE! ALREADY! HAD! Unlike your traditional university which requires students to waste time studying and learning, the people who sent me the e-mail recognize the value of my forced participation in the School [...]
10/09/2007
Storied Problems
When it comes to mathematical ability, nine out of ten experts agree that Americans can easily outperform most single-celled organisms from other cultures. When it comes to competing with actual human beings — or trained chimps or even well-bred horses — Americans don’t do nearly as well. In fact, they lose six out [...]
09/26/2007
Educational Television
T.V. used to be just for fun. We watched light fiction like Lucy, or Newhart or the CBS Evening News. We could flip on the T.V. knowing that we wouldn’t be troubled by thought. Then PBS came along. All of a sudden, thought was a requirement for watching television. You had to think if you [...]
