Tag: Voltaire
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Your Right to Say It
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Mar. 4, 2021) — It was Voltaire, the great 18th century French philosophe – and atheist – who said it. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” In these days of “tolerance” we defend to the death our right never to…
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Resurrecting Education
WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS LEARNING TODAY? by poisontolibs, blogging at The Right Planet (Sep. 6, 2011) — “As our universities evolve for the worse, they are becoming irrelevant. In the distant past, ‘college graduates’ had studied the broad spectrum of knowledge – philosophy, theology, history, science and the arts. They had mined the human record…