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Matthew Crawford has written a piece called The Case for Working With Your Hands that is making quite a splash these days. It’s the cat’s-paw, if you will, for his just-published book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. In it he makes the case for the importance, the worth and dignity [...] Bill Gates does a lot of good work these days, so much that one can almost forgive him for Vista, and ME, and… But let’s not be distracted. His philanthropy is not only a genuine benefit to millions across the world, but as well sets a wonderful example to the hard-working and the fortunate, in stark [...] This is the image we get when we choose “Get the Facts” and then “Maine” from the Strong American Schools: Diploma to Nowhere page. Not so very promising, is it? A hoax is being played on America. The public believes that a high school diploma shows that a student is ready for college-level academics. [...] This is from The College Track: Onward and Upward in the latest issue of The American magazine. It’s hard to shake off very easily the things we’re reading about Charles Murray’s new book, Real Education: Four Simple Truths…. We mentioned the book earlier (here), and we’ll need to keep considering it, it seems. We’ll get our hands on a copy and report back. In the meantime, there’s a pretty interesting article in the September [...] In today’s Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray calls for revolution — the overthrow of the present system of college degrees. For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time: Outside a handful of majors — engineering and some of the sciences — a bachelor’s degree tells an employer nothing except that the applicant has [...] |
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