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‘Ketchup on Canvas’ Painting Sells For Nearly $50 Million Dollars — And More on Modern ‘Art’
This is not satireWhile media attention was focused on the sale of a rare Leonardo da Vinci painting, a piece of modern art being derisively described as “ketchup on canvas” just sold for nearly $50 million dollars.During an auction at Christie’s in New York last night, de ...
The State Weaponizes Education to Create Ignorance
A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason.Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source.A common bond existed in some schools of the day. The student was expected to lear...
Kids are Born Creative Geniuses But the Education System Destroys Imagination
A landmark study shows how most people are born brilliant and lose their abilities to think like a genius over time in the educational system.by Jack BurnsDr. George Land and Beth Jarman were commissioned by NASA to help the space agency identify and develop creative talent.The t...
5 Ways Schools Destroy Children’s Freedom (And What To Do About It)
If you’re a freedom-loving parent, you’re probably doing all you can to give your children autonomy in their own lives. You’re treating them well in the present. But you’re also looking to the long-term goals of raising self-reliant adults who desire freedom for them...
Parenting an Indigo Child from an Indigo’s Point of View
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A 15 YEAR-OLD INDIGO would be writing an article on parenting? Well, not me, that’s for sure! If you think about it though, it makes a lot of sense.Before we came here, we chose you as parents for a reason. Perhaps we thought you could help us learn the b...
6 Differences Between Book Smarts And True Intelligence
You got top grades in school, you excelled through college, and you graduated with a first class degree from a tier one university. Surely that makes you intelligent, right?There’s no doubting your academic abilities, and you’ve clearly been blessed with a very capable mind i...
10 Books That Will Blow Your Mind & Have You Reading Until The Last Page
Reading is incredible. It sparks our imaginations, enhances our critical thinking skills, improves our vocabulary, exercises our brain, and much more. While our love for reading in general will never die, it does seem that, these days, its popularity has waned significantly.Many ...
Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling is for the Future
Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century American schooling mirrored the factories that most students would ult...
7 Things Everyone Should Learn Before They Die
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ~ Vincent Van GoghI attended an interesting event a few nights ago. It featured ten speakers who spoke for ten minutes each on ten things you should know before you die.The speakers included TV and film stars, CEOs, cover-shoot...
10 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” ~ Noam Chomsky1.) It is nearly impossible to pay off the national debt:“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended ...
Arkansas School Now Offers Yoga and Meditation Instead of Detention
A school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, has joined many others in turning to an alternative method of discipline. The Success Achievement Academy has stopped using in-school suspension as punishment. Instead, the directors started using yoga as a means of helping students relieve stress...
7 Things They Never Told Me at School but Should Have
It's funny, but when asked about things learnt that have served to be the greatest contribution to their lives most people will not mention anything from school days. Have you noticed this? I can say that the things I have learnt which have served as a platform for personal growt...