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Teaching and Learning Catastrophes
Like so many of us, I often depend on outside sources to tell me what’s going on in the world today and I was appalled at an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago. How about “three quarters of graduating high school seniors ‘lack basic proficiency in writing’ and a majority of […]
Truth in History: A Look at Race in Its Making
December 21, 2023
Did you know that “that slavery and racism are the foundations of American history?” How can that be? What happened to “all men are created equal” with liberty and justice for all? Democracy? The Vote? Liberty? Free Enterprise? Naw, forget all that claptrap. Here’s what our children need to be taught. In 2019 The New […]
Alabama Football and the Reformation
July 21, 2023
You history buffs and Christians expected something with Martin Luther, right? Don’t worry, he’s down below, but first some prelims. For those of you looking for Martin Luther King, Jr., you’re about four centuries removed from the Martin Luther of the Protestant Reformation. Go and retake your class on world or western civilization. If he […]
Interview with Ric Bratton on the book The Push Back, June, 2023
June 30, 2023
Interview with Ric Bratton on The Push Back. As our country goes through trying times, the author put together the best of his op-ed columns, published in his local newspaper, The Tuscaloosa News, which deals with the issues facing our nation today. Clayton ranges all the way from the issues very close to home and […]
The Woke Community and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Alabama
June 27, 2023
What is “woke?” It used to be being awake, rather than sleeping. But today it is about being “politically correct,” a term I first remember hearing in the 1960s. In fact, the word woke has been politicized in the twenty-first century. In 2017 Merriam Webster’s dictionary added this definition: “chiefly US slang …aware of and […]
Doctors, Pilots, and Equity, or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Infecting Our Land and People
May 4, 2023
Let’s start out with a simple decision most of us have to make at one time or another. I don’t know about you, but if I am flying or having surgery, I want someone qualified by training and ability to handle the cockpit or the scalpel. I certainly don’t want someone who is there because […]
Of Doctors, Pilots and Equity
August 12, 2022
Let’s start out with a simple decision most of us have to make at one time or another. I don’t know about you, but if I am flying or having surgery, I want someone qualified by training and ability to handle the cockpit or the scalpel. I certainly don’t want someone who is there because […]
White Racists, 2022 Update
April 20, 2022
White Racists, 2022 Update Over the past several years, the University of Alabama’s Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion vigorously denied it teaches white racism is inevitable, endemic, and cannot be changed. But is this what they teach? A couple of summers ago DEI at UA hosted a “common read” of the New York Times […]
Going to School, Years Ago
January 22, 2022
What was it like going to school a half century ago? Or maybe a century ago? My brother graduated from Georgia Tech seventy years ago in 1952. And for you all who like ancient history, my grandfather was born before the Civil War. I mentioned that to some undergraduate students a few years ago and […]
The Ugly Grade of F in Schools and Colleges
September 10, 2021
Many schools and colleges have done away with the F grade as too demeaning and demoralizing for students. I don’t know what the rules are today since I retired from teaching almost ten years ago, but I do remember that UA got rid of Fs for introductory English courses, and other discipline entry-level courses did […]
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Matthew 5:14,16 July 30, 2026““You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.”
June 11, 2024
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