CELIA GREEN
15 May 2019

Compulsory education and Prussia - part 2

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Further to the previous post , there is another quotation from Murray Rothbard’s history of compulsory education* which makes it very clear ...
08 May 2019

Compulsory education

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Frederick William I (1688 - 1740) Compulsory education involves the transfer of the power to make decisions about a child’s education fr...
03 April 2019

Robert Nozick on ‘rights’

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Libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick on the individual’s rights versus the state’s rights: Individuals have rights, and there are things n...
18 March 2019

Intelligence and intimidation

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IQ (intelligence quotient) as a single measure of intelligence started to become prominent with the inception of compulsory education. Those...
24 February 2019

Churchill, America and socialism

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The rise of Nationalsozialismus in Germany was only one element in the more or less continuous socialist onslaughts on European capitalist, ...
02 January 2019

Denis Compton: genius cricketer

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Denis Compton CBE (1918 - 1997) Denis Compton, a cricketer who played in nearly eighty Test matches for England and who was a household ...
18 December 2018

Getting one’s eye in at cricket

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50 years ago people used to talk about ‘getting one’s eye in’ when playing a game. This was associated with scoring more freely. My father...
11 December 2018

The risen Jesus: hard to recognise

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Fresco by Giotto, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi According to the Synoptic Gospels, the risen Jesus who was seen by his disciples w...
18 November 2018

Adopting male psychology

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Most positions that disagree with feminism argue either that women are inferior, or that they are equal to, but different from, men. A thi...
30 October 2018

Havelock Ellis: ability arouses hostility

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Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939) Every original worker in intellectual fields, every man who makes some new thing, is certain to arouse host...
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