Category: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Michael Zwaagstra: Education Schools Do a Poor Job of Training Teachers

Commentary Nearly a century ago, Lawrence Lowell, the retiring president of Harvard University, described his university’s education school as “a kitten that ought to be drowned.” While Lowell’s words were offensive, his point was clear. Education schools have a poor reputation. This was true in the early-20th century and it remains true today. In 2006,…


Tradition and the ‘Democracy of the Dead’

Commentary In “Four Quartets,” one of the most celebrated poems of the last century, T.S. Eliot writes: “Time present and time past/ Are both perhaps present in time future/ And time future contained in time past. … A people without history/ Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/ Of timeless moments.” Eliot’s…