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Recovering Contemplation in an Age of Total Work
Technology and the Fate of Leisure
Feb 14
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"No One Uses It Rightly"
Teaching Elementary Arithmetic as a Liberal Art
Jan 3
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Recovering Educational Freedom Part 3
When Teachers Stopped Being Schoolmasters
Dec 6, 2025
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Recovering Educational Freedom Part 2
When the State Became Primary Educator
Nov 29, 2025
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Recovering Educational Freedom Part 1
Designed to Destroy Free Will
Nov 22, 2025
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The One-Room Schoolhouse: how bad was it?
Jul 23, 2025
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Teaching and [Re]Learning Mathematics
Aug 13, 2025
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Why We Struggle With Math
Jun 14, 2025
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Teaching Real Arithmetic
Sep 27, 2025
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Public Education and Religious Freedom
The Public Education System in a Non-sectarian State
Nov 8, 2025
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Schools Before One-Room Schools: Dame Schools
The Original Microschool
Oct 4, 2025
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Teaching Real Arithmetic
An experience of what your math class could have been like
Sep 27, 2025
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The Education Revolution Is Here and Parents and Children Are Winning
Originally published by the Civitas Institute at UT Austin
Sep 20, 2025
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Nobody Teaches Arithmetic Anymore
A Wake-Up Call for Classical Educators
Sep 13, 2025
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The Man Who Revolutionized Education (And Why That's a Problem)
How John Dewey's "progressive" ideas fundamentally changed American schools
Sep 8, 2025
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Public Education or Public Indoctrination?
Why governments really created public schools (Spoiler alert: it wasn't to help your children learn)
Aug 30, 2025
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