Category Archives: Education
Student Loans
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 30th September 2012The only segment of our economy that had experienced the same inflation as medical care is higher education. While there may be many causes for this expansion of cost the biggest is doubtless the easy availability of student loans. The federal government has recently assumed full responsibility for the vast majority of these instruments. Until now it…
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Res Ipsa Loquitur
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th September 2012But if you’d like to read more about this observation, ie SAT reading scores are at a decades long low, go here.
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The Wall Street Journal and American History
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 15th June 2011The Wall Street Journal today published Students Stumble Again on the Basics of History. In it they present the familiar lament that many American students are deficient in the basics of American history. The following picture was used to illustrate how little our students know about the Declaration of Independence. All is not lost, however,…
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A Liberal Education
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd November 2010Nobody can teach you nothing. You got to learn for yourself – Willie Mays Gregory A Petsko, the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and chair of biochemistry at Brandeis University, has written an open, angry, and hostile letter to George M. Philip, the president of the State University of New York at Albany…
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Educational Thought of the Day
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 1st March 2008Nobody can teach you nothing. You got to learn for yourself. Willie Mays
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