“Babies Are Born to Dance, New Research Shows” is the headline of a recent report in Science Daily: “Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech.” Data like this connect with key issues about mind-body integration. Music seems to be central to every […]
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This chart, based on a Bureau of Labor Statistics time-use survey of teenagers, presents data for four racial/cultural groupings: Asian, non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, and black. If the data are accurate, how far does the chart go towards explaining differentials across the races in grades, graduation rates, employment rates, and income levels? Also interesting is the
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For this year’s conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, I am organizing and chairing a session on two giants of the twentieth century — Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — with four scholars comparing their views on values and political economy. Topic: Hayek and Rand on Values Chair: Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Rockford College,
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… is now available at Amazon. Here is my theme: “The liberal case for free speech won out in the modern world, but it has been under strong attack in the past generation. The attacks have come not only from traditional conservatives but increasingly from the postmodern left. In this essay, Stephen Hicks presents and
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I have fond memories of my undergraduate institution, the University of Guelph in Canada. It’s a beautiful campus, I got a wide-ranging liberal arts education, and the Philosophy Department was intellectually diverse and (mostly) competent. (Another alumni, John Kenneth Galbraith, was apparently not so impressed with his time there.) Check out pages 48-52 of this
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A stimulating, 11:40-minute animated talk by Ken Robinson. I have qualms about some of Robinson’s intellectual-history-of-education claims, but his portrait of mainstream contemporary education (especially the repulsive cop-out that is the ADHD “epidemic”) and his prescriptions for reform are bang-on accurate. [Which reminds me of my extended series on the philosophy and history of education.]
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Stephen Hicks discusses why philosophy matters to education. This is from Part 15 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: [Part 14: Postmodern education] Postmodern education: science. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Also: the full fifteen-lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return to the StephenHicks.org main
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Stephen Hicks discusses the use of history in postmodern education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Postmodern education: Literature. Next: Postmodern education: Science. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists. Return to the
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