Archive for February, 2006
A door opens, and Summer leaves
Larry Summers of Harvard is gone. He is not dead, he is quite alive, he just isn’t leading as president of Harvard. It was just a few days ago when he tendered his resignation. In a letter posted on Harvard’s website in which he says that he did this reluctantly, gave reasons, and said "I believe, therefore, that it is best for the University [...]
The Perpetual Teach-In for Perpetual Indoctrination
“The professorial task is to teach students how to think, not to tell them what to think.”Back in the summer of 1998, I enrolled in a graduate program at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. The first night of class began as lecture, yet, after a break, a discussion session broke out. Its primary topic had nothing to do with child [...]


