education

Weekend Insights – Space, the Final Frontier

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Putting Students First

Culture

Recent disturbing trends have harmed students across the country. Indeed, on too many campuses there is an obsession with homogenization, bureaucratization, research, and money.

Jamin Hübner on How State Accreditation Hinders Education

Libertarianism

Jamin Hübner, General Editor of LCI’s new research journal, Christian Libertarian Review, recently published an academic piece in The Journal of Religious Leadership on the bureaucratic roadblocks to accreditation caused ...

A Better Way: Praxis

Libertarianism

“By their fruits you will recognize them.” – Jesus Not what you say, or who you like, or how you vote, or what Facebook groups you belong to.  Your fruit.  ...

Victory, Defeat, and Learning About Liberty

Libertarianism

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi Many of life’s lessons can be ...

The Libertarian Case Against Public Schools

Culture

Conservatives and libertarians have a precarious relationship. On the surface, they appear to agree on some issues, but once you dig a little deeper, vast philosophical differences quickly become evident. ...

LCC interviewed about homeschooling at Liberty.me

Appearances

My wife and I joined Manuel Lora of Liberty.me Odds and Ends Podcast and author Lucy Steigerwald for a discussion about our experiences as homeschoolers and how the state messes ...

How will education be handled in a free market?

Economics

G.T. asks a great question on the Christian Libertarian FAQ: It’s one thing for adults to be left to make their own choices and live with the consequences, but when ...

Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Politics

If you have never read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity, and close friend to J.R.R. Tolkien), then you are missing ...

The Problem with Public Education

Culture

In the wake of the shootings in Phoenix, Arizona, earlier this year, a bill was proposed in the Arizona legislature that would allow faculty members at universities and community colleges ...

Austrian Economics and Pedagogy

Media

I love economics and truly believe understanding it is critical to the further spread of liberty. Check out this awesome video from Reason TV about teaching and learning that applies ...

News of the Week: Potpourri of Sorts

News

Recapping the interesting and noteworthy happenings of the last week. Dilbert author Scott Adams finally explains how to get a real education. ExxonMobil’s Perspectives Blog tells the truth about government ...

News of the Week: On Productivity and Science

News

Recapping the interesting and noteworthy events of the past week. I love Cal Newport’s Study Hacks blog. He is an incredibly insightful writer on education and personal productivity. Check out ...

News of the Week: November 14-20

News

This past week I have been traveling a lot. Currently I’m in Columbus, OH visiting my lovely wife, so I haven’t been, uhh, available to post… Anyway, here are some ...

Classic Essay: Against School

Culture

By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in ...

Teensploitation

Economics

Far from being environments conducive to learning, schools across the world coerce students to conform to the whims of politicians and bureaucrats. Billed as bastions of free expression, intellectual honesty ...

The Liberating Arts

Philosophy

By Edmund Opitz. —- The recent movie called Out of Africa has acquainted millions of Americans with the name of a Danish Baroness Blixen, whose pen name was Isak Dinesen. ...

Thoughts on Homeschooling

President's Blog

Recently, Sweden has made a lot of noise about banning homeschooling. It isn’t set in stone yet, and in fact the Swedish Association for Home Education is asking for help ...

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