Teach your children well: It will come as no surprise to my readers that I am a reader – and a writer. I love books.…
On the educational mess we are in: Education wars are now all around us, with woke and leftist ideology running most schools and education departments.…
How to turn things around in the education wars: To say our educational system needs rescuing implies that it is in a bad way, and…
On the education wars: Most parents and many educators understand that there is a crisis in education. We have more public education in the West…
One can never get enough of Thomas Sowell: Given that there are over one hundred articles on my website either fully devoted to Thomas Sowell…
What we must know about academia and the culture wars: I have said before that the British academic and ethicist Nigel Biggar is one of…
Concerns about where we are headed in a post-thinking, post-human world: I have said it before: I am old, and I am old school. So…
Hope for much needed educational reform: That there are massive problems with higher education in America – and much of the West – might be…
On AI, ChatGPT, and human creativity: I am old school when it comes to all things AI, including digital voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri…
So many indications of Western decline: For decades now experts and non-experts alike have bemoaned the fact that in the West educational standards and outcomes…
Memories of my theological past: This piece is as much a personal account of some of my earlier years as it is a discussion of…
Sayers and Wilson on learning: There are not all that many discerning individuals who will insist that Western education today is in great shape. When…
Sowell at his best in critiquing modern education: Let me begin by saying that if you do not know who Thomas Sowell is, you need…
Apostasy is real – and a real concern: Jesus made it crystal clear that there would be those who will turn on him, and turn…
When so-called Christians turn on the faithful: We expect non-Christians and Christophobes to hate on Christianity. It happens all the time and is par for…
When Christian schools go bad: One of the older and more well-known private schools in Australia is Methodist Ladies’ College in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, founded…
Western universities have a lot to answer for: All over the Western world, especially since the horrific October 7 attack, we have seen universities pushing…
Warnings about modern statist education: There are many good public schools and public school teachers out there. But many schools and teachers have made it…
Some important words about modern education: Education is a good thing. However, modern Western education is usually anything but real education. It tends to be…
The deliberate dumbing down of our children: OK, so this is another eclectic piece – or at least another piece with an eclectic title! But…