PinnedFrank BreslinDid School Teach You to Think or Memorize?Vivere est cogitare. To live is to think (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 5. 38. 111). How do we know when we’re thinking and not merely…2d ago12d ago1
PinnedFrank BreslinThree Reasons Why Public High Schools Don’t Teach Critical ThinkingThe following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what…Dec 2, 202355Dec 2, 202355
PinnedFrank Breslin13 Fallacies You May be CommittingIn our daily lives, we often sense that something is not quite right with a line of reasoning, although we aren’t quite sure what it is…Jul 29Jul 29
Frank BreslinHow to Remain Closed-minded Your Entire LifeIf you’re raised with a particular view of the world, you assume that it’s right. If you read or travel, however, you soon discover other…2d ago2d ago
Frank BreslinTeaching the Bible as a Secular Text in Public High School — Part 1Preliminary Observations2d ago2d ago
Frank BreslinThe Greeks, Romans, and Lord Tennyson, or Using Others for Your Own Personal GloryOmnis dies, omnis hora quam nihil simus ostendit. Every day and every hour show us we are nothing (Seneca, Moral Letters, 101. 1). When we…6d ago6d ago
Frank BreslinHow Anything That Awakens Pity is Very DangerousThe Desert Fathers of the 3rd and 4th centuries CE lived alone in their caves and hovels in the Egyptian wilderness and began to have…6d ago16d ago1
Frank BreslinSuppressing Truth in the ClassroomOnce upon a time over the portals of the fabled Library of Alexandria were chiseled these words: “The Hospital for the Soul.” This majestic…6d ago6d ago
Frank BreslinThe White Supremacist GospelWhat if your race had known only tragedy throughout America’s history? What if your people had been enslaved, persecuted, lynched, and…6d ago6d ago
Frank BreslinTeachers Should Not Make Converts, but Critical ThinkersTeaching only one point of view is not teaching but brainwashing students, which is not what a teacher should be doing, but opening up a…6d ago6d ago