Dr. Kevin Currie-Knight is a Teaching Assistant Professor in East Carolina University’s College of Education. He focuses on the philosophy/history of education.
Progressives and conservatives may have more in common than they realize. Atop that list, it seems, is a love for the idea of safe spaces; ironic, given that many conservatives decry the idea of safe spaces when they…
It has happened. The American Dialect Society has announced that 2015’s word of the year is “they” used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. And predictably, grammarians are pushing back. Traditonalists see nothing wrong in using “he” as a generic…
Diversity often confounds us. Judging other people seems to come naturally, but it is also a very hard thing for us to do, especially when those we are judging are quite different from us. Ironically, it is often when people are quite different from…
Is smart technology making us dumb? That’s the title of a recent Intelligence Squared debate, and it’s a question that has been in the public consciousness for a few years now. Pessimists like Nicholas Carr and…