One of the problems with Howard Zinn’s People’s History is his insidious use of rhetorical questions. He is a very good writer, and makes excellent use of the his rhetorical skills to hide his poor scholarship in order to push his hard-left views. Most students reading this book (or excerpts from it) are going to […]
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Podcast test
Checking out the viability of sound files for podcast thoughts while I learn video editing for posting things to youtube. How’s this one work? The learning curve for picking up totally new things is brutal. I’m an experienced speaker, but learning to figure out what video and audio tools to use to do basic capture […]
The Problem
School ≠ Education ≠ Learning. The problems with our current school system are many, too many to list in detail. Expensive, poorly matched to the needs of today’s work force, overtly political and hostile to the more traditional half of the population, inefficient, ineffective, horrible for boys, philosophically incoherent, and generally an illustrated example on […]
Introduction!
Welcome to the Howling Puffin, an internet mental watering hole that aims to to find solutions. It was named for the fictional pub/tavern that was the birth-place of the order of St Possenti.The current goal is to find the people who have the rest of the pieces of the solution to how to reform our […]