https://bluecerealeducation.com Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:13:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vii-silver-bullets/ https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vii-silver-bullets/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:06:25 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vii-silver-bullets/ I’ve already laid out six posts of historical analogies involving land and culture and race. These not only make it sound like I’m smarter than I actually am, but they correlate in a very real way with actual problems in education today. It’s time to fix it. Are the schools going to be a part of that? They’d have to, I’d think. But they’re not enough.]]> https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vii-silver-bullets/feed/ 1 109 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vi-abcdf/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:37:17 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-vi-abcdf/ Continue reading 40 Credits & A Mule, Part VI: Return of the Jedi]]> 106 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-v-maybe-radio/ Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:39:39 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-v-maybe-radio/ The original element of despotism is a MONOPOLY OF TALENT, which consigns the multitude to comparative ignorance, and secures the balance of knowledge on the side of the rich and the rulers. If then the healthy existence of a free government be, as the committee believe, rooted in the WILL of the American people, it follows as a necessary consequence, of a government based upon that will, that this monopoly should be broken up, and that the means of equal knowledge, (the only security for equal liberty) should be rendered, by legal provision, the common property of all classes. In a republic, the people constitute the government, and… frame the laws and create the institutions, that promote their happiness or produce their destruction… It appears, therefore, to the committee that there can be no real liberty without a wide diffusion of real intelligence; that the members of a republic, should all be alike instructed in the nature and character of their equal rights and duties, as human beings, and as citizens… ]]> 104 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iv-measure-man-0/ https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iv-measure-man-0/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:51:40 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iv-measure-man-0/ https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iv-measure-man-0/feed/ 1 103 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iii-manifest-destiny/ Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:45:28 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-iii-manifest-destiny/ It was genuinely maddening. Let’s not overlook that. Mixed in with the greed and selfishness and prejudice and maybe even some dark damnable thoughts was palpable frustration – an almost holy outrage – that this land was being denied them by a people unwilling to do more than jiggle their Jello. We needed that land – we deserved that land. This is not just about me and mine – although it IS very much also about me and mine. We’re here as part of something bigger – something important – something holy – something democratic – something special. ]]> 101 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-ii-chosen-people/ Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:22:55 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-ii-chosen-people/ Continue reading 40 Credits & A Mule, Part II: Chosen People]]> 100 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/40-credits-mule-part-i-land/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 20:59:15 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/40-credits-mule-part-i-land/ Land was a big deal when our little experiment in democracy began. Now it's not - at least not as much. I'd like to convince you that today's college degree is yesterday's 160 acres. If not, I'll seek to bore and befuddle you enough along the way that hopefully you'll begin skimming, and eventually just assume I've made some pretty good points. ]]> 99