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THE JEWEL OF THE SUMMER -- FREEDOM SCHOOLS

THE JEWEL OF THE SUMMER -- FREEDOM SCHOOLS

In a savage and sizzling summer, Mississippi’s Freedom Schools were beacons of hope.

TEACHERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachersThe AtticJune 21, 2024Freedom Schools, Freedom Summer, 1964, Mississippi, Civil Rights Movement Comments

A MIND FOR THE MASSES

A MIND FOR THE MASSES

Martin Gardner was interested in everything and made everything interesting.

TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, TEACHERS, teachersThe AtticFebruary 28, 2024Martin Gardner, Scientific American, Mathematics, Recreational math, puzzles, Alice in Wonderland, The Annotated Alice Comments

THE ECONOMIST AND THE COMMONS

THE ECONOMIST AND THE COMMONS

The commons was doomed, economists said. Elinor Ostrom disagreed and won a Nobel.

TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healers, DREAMERSThe AtticJuly 6, 2022Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize economicsComment

WHO IS AMERICA'S GREATEST THINKER?

WHO IS AMERICA'S GREATEST THINKER?

Think the Midwest is just corn country? The annual Great American Think-off will make you think again.

TEACHERS, teachers, teachers & healers, TEACHERS & HEALERSBruce WatsonJune 2, 2022Great American Think-off, Philosophy, American philosophy, Thinking Comment

LIFE AND LIFE SENTENCES

LIFE AND LIFE SENTENCES

When Will Durant asked the wise about “the meaning of life,” he got the usual answers. Then he asked a prisoner.

teachers, TEACHERS, teachers & healers, BOOK-ISHThe AtticApril 22, 2021philosophy, will durant, meaning of life, Owen c. middleton Comment

WATCHING US WATCH TV

WATCHING US WATCH TV

Others saw TV as mindless, but George Gerbner saw it as mean. And he had the data to prove it.

teachers, TEACHERS, TEACHERS & HEALERS, teachers & healersThe AtticOctober 1, 2020George Gerbner, TV Watching, TV studies, TV violence Comments