Tag Archives: Education

The Moral Imagination

Posted on June 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

It is not enough to give to our children and our society definitions of right and wrong or normless stories and books leading to an inability to make the profound decisions needed for the better world we so desperately need. … Continue reading →

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On Understanding Children’s Literature

Posted on June 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A wisely crafted tale invites its reader or listener, young and old, to inquire what good might be learned from the tale. On Understanding Children’s Literature by Michael Doyle The stories we have heard from childhood Are the classics of … Continue reading →

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Dragged Into the Streets

Posted on May 20, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading →

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The Wolf Knows Its Howl

Posted on April 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Primary Object Should Be the Education of Our Youth In the Science of Government

Posted on April 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing… than … communicating it to those who are to … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Cleanliness and Order Are Matters of Education and Must Be Cultivated

Posted on March 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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First Principles: If We Mean To Have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, We Should Have Learned Women

Posted on March 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the … Continue reading →

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Afrofuturistic

Posted on January 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Design and empathy feed off each other in telling many tales. One of these is the telling of Black America’s history and a guiding light into the future. Afrofuturistic by Michael Romani Life can be a bit frantic For the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of American Society Is the People Themselves

Posted on December 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Religion, Morality and Knowledge Are Necessary To Good Government and the Happiness of Mankind

Posted on September 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” – Mananasseh Cutler, in Article III of the Northwest Ordinance

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