Education, Who Needs It?

There was a time in our history when the ability to go to school was counted as such a privilege that few questioned why they should attend.  This is still the case in most countries around the world.  However, this is certainly not a universally held sentiment in Canada where increasingly many young people regard […]

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How History Should Be Taught or a Review of Heroes of History:  A Brief History Of Civilization From Ancient Times To The Dawn Of The Modern Age.  Will Durant, Simon and Schuster.  New York: 2001.  348 pages.

Will Durant was born in 1885 and died in 1981.  Born of French Canadian parents, he immigrated to the US and was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize as well as the American Medal of Freedom —the highest honour that the US government can bestow upon a civilian.  Among his many publications, he wrote a […]

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The Collapse of Parenting:  How We Hurt Our Kinds When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups.  Leonard Sax, MD,PhD., Basic Books.  New York: 2016.  287pages.

Leonard Sax has written a number of best-selling books some of which I have already posted book reviews of including Boys Adrift and Why Gender Matters.  As a general practitioner and family doctor with an MD, he adds a PhD in psychology to his qualifications .  That plus 25 years of experience dealing with families […]

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