Category: Education

Ivy league schools will soon need a white quota.

Another of my friends has an Asian wife and thus entree  into the Asian community. He quotes their (wisely private) outlook: “Whites are lazy and stupid.”

Source: Jewish Decline and the Rise of China: In the US | Fred On Everything

More money is all we hear from the public service. As we slowly externalize our jobs as parents, we realise we have to give up more of our income to “experts” or technocrats. We are living in a technocratic fascistic state, to be sure. It’s not coming, it’s already here (fascism does not mean Hitler, it means the merging of governments and corporations into one entity).

My recent experience is guidance counsellors are not all that effective at all. Why would a child in elementary school need one? Are parents completely left out or useless?

Workers spread too thin at a time when focus is on mental health, advocacy group, People for Education, warns

Source: Guidance counsellors ‘missing completely’ from most elementary schools: Report | Toronto Star

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It’s time to build your own computer. I’m starting my own construction thanks to O’s help.

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Great idea – but how many would dare risk it?

Thirteen-year-old Fin Hewitt and his 10-year-old brother Rye sport belt knives instead of backpacks.

via Why one family practices unschooling | Toronto Star.

Interesting article on the trivium. If I only spent as much time understanding the trivium as I did fakeology…

When I was first introduced to the concept of the liberal arts and its revival called the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), I thought to myself – at last, the keys to understanding the spelling and illicit word magic that so continuously are used against us. I […]

http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/weaponizing-the-trivium-the-greatest-fallacy/

There really are no new ideas. Views swing back and forth, like a pendulum. We’ve bread a whole new generation of children who won’t take risks. Essentially, we have a whole wave of the population that could be government workers. There will be no inventors, or people willing to take risks. Society will stagnate. Perhaps that’s what’s happening now in the West.

Until we let our children fall out of a tree, they will never learn their limits. That’s sad.

It had been mere months since the gregarious principal threw out the rulebook on the playground of concrete and mud, dotted with tall trees and hidden corners; just weeks since he had stopped reprimanding students who whipped around on their scooters or wielded sticks in play sword fights.

via When one New Zealand school tossed its playground rules and let students risk injury, the results were surprising | National Post.

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I’m sure they teach the trivium and quadrivium as well.

The boarding schools on this list are highly selective schools with many more applicants than places for students. The acceptance rates are 25% or less. The schools are listed in alphabetical order. I have made no attempt to rank these schools as each one is unique. You need to assess schools on the basis of how they fit your requirements. The best school is always the school which fits best.

via Top Boarding Schools – Top Boarding Schools in the U.S..

In Pictures: America’s Best Prep Schools – Forbes