What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Identity in Literature and Life
Brain Pickings · 12 min“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
They went undercover, smuggled revolvers in teddy bears and were bearers of the truth. Why hadn’t I heard their stories?
How the twin histories of English and Esperanto—the first driven by global imperialism, the second invented by a Jewish ophthalmologist—offer competing visions of a universal language.
Some of our most common, ingrained expressions have damaging effects on millions of people – and many of us don't know we're hurting others when we speak.
When we think about ancient philosophers we tend to imagine old men as deep thinkers. Women too have helped shape modern thought.
The Prince, The Canterbury Tales, The Communist Manifesto, The Souls of Black Folk, The Elements of Style: we’ve read all these, of course. Or at least we’ve read most of them (one or two for sure), if our ever-dimmer memories of high school or college are to be trusted.
What happens when you share your feelings at work. What are the key elements of happiness?
This op-ed was written by Rory Selinger, a 14-year-old high school student in New York State. There are many things I miss about my pre-pandemic life. Attending school in person is not one of them.
Getting a top-tier MBA has always been an expensive proposition, setting you back something like $200,000 between tuition and living expenses (not to mention lost income). This year there may be even more reason to think long and hard before going to business school.
When a Concordia University student went to email his professor recently, he found out something startling.
Many kids desperately want to learn a new skill, but they hesitate to practice because they're afraid they'll fail or won't be good at it. They want to be flawless from the start, or at least not make a fool of themselves. Even to parents, failing feels scary.
Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading. In this pandemic year, parents have been watching — often anxiously — their children’s increasing reliance on screens for every aspect of their education.
A Philadelphia elementary school recently forced fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally in honor of political radical Angela Davis.
Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com.
Nine years ago, Katrina Hoop earned tenure at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, a small private institution. It had been a long road to get there: Six years in graduate school, then another six on the tenure track.
Students at Build UP remodel houses in Birmingham, Alabama, that they can then own, building generational wealth and combating blight. 5 minute ReadWhen students graduate from a new kind of school in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 20 or 21, they could end up owning a house.
The heads of Ryerson’s School of Journalism resigned Sunday, just hours before a group of current and former students released an open letter accusing the school of fostering an “unsafe learning environment” and failing to support racialized and LGBTQ students.
I moved with my family from Taiwan to the United States when I was 10 years old, to a small suburban town in New Jersey. Our high school had a “guidance counselor” but I don’t remember receiving much guidance when it was time to apply to college.
Disruptions to education during the pandemic are turning people away from a profession that was already struggling to attract new recruits. Kianna Ameni-Melvin’s parents used to tell her that there wasn’t much money to be made in education.
Canceling debt is what’s needed to ensure a solid, equitable middle class. Pieces like this almost always start with someone’s student debt story.
As Jennifer Gomez prepared for an investor pitch, the 34-year-old Brooklyn native was primarily concerned with setting up her first grader, Olivia, for school and keeping her 3-year-old, Valentina, occupied.
The statements from college presidents came in flurries, bullet-pointed and chock-full of promises. Most were issued last summer in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There were announcements of new committees, initiatives, and task forces.
The real question for Democrats is how to get every student a good education. Dr. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focused on racism, social inequality, urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people.