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The Subversive Art of Slow Reading
What was once an act of immersion has now become an exercise in evasion. There’s no time to linger or to contemplate because the screen is perpetually…
Feb 3, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Seven Essential Books for Understanding Classical Education
Admit it: you're curious about this thing called classical education, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. Fret no more! I've put together…
Apr 7, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Ten Books No One in Education Wants You to Read
From The Tyranny of Engagement to Devices in Every Hand, Minds in None, here's an imaginary library for an age trying to understand what went wrong with…
Jan 29
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Michael S. Rose
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Ten Polymaths Every Serious Reader Should Know
From Aristotle to Leibniz to Wojtyla, here's a curated guide to the minds that refused to limit themselves by specialization, with reading…
Apr 20
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Michael S. Rose
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The Lost Art of the Commonplace Book
Readers, don’t just wander from book to book like a nomad. Gather what is best. Write it down. Return to it. Make it yours.
Apr 13
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Michael S. Rose
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26 Terms Modern Education Can’t Stop Misusing
A satirical inventory of once-serious words now stretched, softened, and repurposed beyond recognition in the AI-saturated language of modern education.
Jan 6
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Michael S. Rose
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The Subversive Art of Sentence Diagramming
A key to understanding language, to thinking deeply, and, perhaps, to finding a measure of beauty in the intricate, interconnected world of words
Jan 18, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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How to Develop Immunity to Manipulation
Why are tech titans afraid of students reading primary sources? They develop the one skill algorithms can't replicate: the ability to think for…
Feb 2
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Michael S. Rose
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Obfuscation 101: The Lexicon of Empty Ed-Speak
Here are the ten most overused, overinflated, and utterly exhausted phrases in modern education, each a monument to the art of saying nothing with…
Mar 7, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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Used Bookshops and the Culture We Are Losing
On Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, and the Wunderkammer principle applied to a hundred yards of Victorian shopfronts in the heart of London.
Apr 27
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Michael S. Rose
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26 EduSpeak Sayings You’ll Hear in 2026 and Wish You Hadn't
A lightly savage tour through the AI-inflected jargon of modern education, where everyone speaks fluently, no one asks for definitions, and we all nod…
Dec 30, 2025
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Michael S. Rose
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26 Educational Truths Schools Desperately Need but Studiously Avoid
A contrarian defense of unfashionable educational concepts that are quietly indispensable, routinely dismissed, and increasingly out of step with the…
Jan 2
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Michael S. Rose
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