Education

Parents and kids should realize that learning principles of economics and business is not about propaganda-spouting: it is about logic, thinking, and problem solving.

Groupthink is a process of gradualism that seeks to gently merge the followers into a pack with leaders.

CNN Newsroom enthusiastically reported on the militarization of schools in Russia. Adam Young draws attention to the reality behind the propaganda.

Conflict will forever plague public education so long as its users have different expectations and values. There is only one way out of this mess, writes Tibor Machan, and the solution is far-reaching and radical.

Under the Bush system in Texas, teachers teach the test. They drill until ninety percent of the kids can pass it. The weakest among the students dictate the pace and method. It is a dreary and unimaginative approach to teaching. But if your goal is to boost overall scores, no question: this is the way to do it.

Rumor has it that the economics profession has finally been "won over" to a free-market view of the world. If the complimentary economics textbooks that cross my desk are a bellwether, however, it is not yet time to break out the champagne.

Why is it always socialist academics from the USA who fill the posts of visiting professors in European universities? William Anderson explains.

The idea of vouchers sounds good, but it has too many inherent flaws, like Oskar Lange’s "market socialism."

There is a rumor afloat that the economics profession has finally been "won over" to a free market view of the world. That's not the case, says William Anderson.  

After attending a leading business school for the last year, I have been witness to capitalist bashing that rivals that of high schools and colleges. The chilling part is that these schools are training future business managers working in a free-enterprise system.