Paul M. Jones | Education 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Scribes Seek Status 2017-10-05T09:19:12-05:00 Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status…The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claim... The Lost Tools of Learning 2017-07-28T02:52:42-05:00 To learn six subjects without remembering how they were learnt does nothing to ease the approach to a seventh; to have learnt and remembered the art of learning makes the approach to every subject an open door. Source: The Lost Tools of Learning... Why They Sent Ahmed To Juvie 2015-09-16T20:34:05-05:00 Multiculturalism eliminates any shared sense of rules beyond an ever increasing tangle of bureaucratic doctrines. The administrators who sent him to a detention center were almost certainly following strict rules about how to respond to students brin... Rote memorization plays crucial role in teaching students how to solve complex calculations 2014-08-25T19:28:47-05:00 Memorizing the answers to simple math problems, such as basic addition or the multiplication tables, marks a key shift in a child’s cognitive development, because it helps bridge the gap from counting on fingers to complex calculation, according... How The New Deal Ruined The Arts 2013-09-01T22:15:02-05:00 Poetry is an industry. It has always been an industry. It is something that people do. Writing poetry is work. You may be paid for this work in money, or you may be paid in the esteem of your peers, or you may be paid only in your own satisfaction. B... If You Have A Job, You Work Almost One Hour Per Day To Fund Public Schools 2013-04-23T08:31:05-05:00 1) Revenues collected by governments for public education in the United States totaled $593.7 billion. About $261.4 billion came from local sources, $258.2 billion from state sources, and $74 billion from federal sources. 2) That’s about $1,922 ... Too Many College Graduates, Not Enough Jobs For Them 2013-01-29T12:45:46-06:00 Nearly half of working Americans with college degrees are in jobs for which they're overqualified, a new study out Monday suggests. The study, released by the non-profit Center for College Affordability and Productivity, says the trend is likely to c... Lecture at home, homework at school: Teachers flip for 'flipped learning' class model 2013-01-28T23:47:56-06:00 Under the model, teachers make eight- to 10-minute videos of their lessons using laptops, often simply filming the whiteboard as the teacher makes notations and recording their voice as they explain the concept. The videos are uploaded onto a teacher... The Voodoo Sciences: The Difference Between "Data" and "Evidence" 2013-01-14T00:04:52-06:00 Go to any U.S. university. You will hear lamentation and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Washington has become unfeeling and stupidly refuses to support higher education: don't those idiots on the Potomac know that education is a investment in the fut... Death by Degrees (College Degrees, That Is) 2013-01-13T23:14:52-06:00 No administration has embodied credentialism as thoroughly as the current one. Of Obama’s first thirty-five cabinet appointments, twenty-two had a degree from an Ivy League university, MIT, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Oxford, or Cambrid...