From Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man : The difference between strict hereditarians and their opponents is not, as some caricature...

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The following extract* from John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography is cited in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate . ...

In the standard Gospels it is often necessary to make rather extreme substitutions for anything that makes sense to emerge. None of the Gosp...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...