College and Career Planning

Choosing what to do with your life is not easy so in a previous post I listed eight options for life after high school. Currently, nearly 70% of U.S. high school graduates are choosing to immediately enroll in a 4-year or 2-year college. But that decision does not work out well for everyone. About a … Read more

The Practice of School

I have written blog posts on the history of modern schooling and the philosophy of schooling. In this post, I will consider the practical side of K-12 schooling by answering three questions. First, what’s good about the traditional school model? Second, what’s bad about the traditional school model? Third, what would a school look like … Read more

The Origins of National Compulsory Schooling in America

“Why do I have to go to school?” “Why do we have to study this?” “What’s the point?” These types of questions put me on a long-term search to understand the origin of compulsory schooling.  The Search Begins My search was fueled by bold critiques of traditional schooling written by John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018), author of Dumbing … Read more

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