Talks about Classical Liberal education is titled resurgence of wisdom reviving classical education in america. There is a crisis. American citizens are ignorant on topics like civics and history and other topics. One poll found only a quarter of americans can correctly name all three branches of the United States government. Clearly, this is a problem. Not only do citizens not know basic facts about civics, history and other topics taught on College Campuses and dont see why knowing these facts might be important. The solution to this problem might lie in a revival of classical education in the United States. Lets start by defining this type of education. As dr. Thomas lindsay, a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation explained, a classical teaches philosophical scientific and historic aspects of the western traditions. It takes its vision from the model of a perfected human being, someone who is fully flourishing. Because we exist in time and space, we study math and Natural Sc
Is ordered to pay damages. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Four serving members of the british army have been arrested on suspicion of being members of National Action a banned Neo Nazi Group. They are being held under terror laws, although police say the public was never in danger. Three were arrested here in britain and a fourth in cyprus. A fifth person, a civilian, is also being detained. Our Home Affairs Correspondent tom symonds reports. The bbcs been told three of the men are members of the royal anglian regiment which recruits in norfolk, suffolk, essex and cambridge. Four were arrested in the uk, one in cyprus. An Army Spokesman said that group is National Action, that group is National Action, which described itself last year in the language of hitlers fascism, as a National Socialist youth movement. Its members marched the streets. The focus was as much on spreading neo nazi ideas online, but experts say the far right is not well supported. I think extreme right groups
Information about donald trump stonewalling as Hillary Clinton in her campaign . This entire year theyve known they paid for it. Youve had clinton officials coming on this network other networks talking about trump advisor, russia. Liz the bomb shell Washington Post report revealing Hillary Clintons campaign and the Democrat National committee paid for that infamous and un proven russian docier loaded with accusations against then candidate trump. That fueled the russia russia russia claims that the media took off with that they ran with and about any journalistic Fact Checking treating it like government intelligence like a government document when it was not and the democrats and the Clinton Campaign both repeatedly denied having anything to do with it for about a year. We were skeptical about that file right from the get go. We bring you down the Democrat Money trail tonight and now this senator Chuck Grassley calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special council to investi
Proposed requirement beforehanding graduates in chicago their high school diplomas. Introductions under way. Welcome to the National Press club. The place where news happens. My name is andrea. Im part of the breaking newsdesk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started, id like to remind everyone again please in our audience to please silence your telephones. Our viewing and listening audience, feel free to also follow along on twitter using the hash tag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction that you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now id like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants stand up when i say your name. We have jamal abdul alim, senior staff writer of diverse issues and Higher Education. We have jer
Welcome to the National Press club, the place where news happens. My name is andrea edney. Im part of the breaking news desk at Bloomberg News and im Vice President of the National Press club. Before we get started i would like to remind everyone again, please, to in our inhouse audience to please silence cellphones if you havent already. For our viewing and listening audience follow along on twitter using the pressclub. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may hear is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. Now, i would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal abdul allen, senior staff writer at diverse issues in Higher Education. We have jerry weller, former u. S. Representative from illinoiss 11th district and president of t