John Deere
The Uncomfortable Question: Could Moving John Deere Tractor Manufacturing to China Ultimately Help American Farmers? For generations, John Deere and Waterloo, Iowa, have been almost inseparable. The sight of green tractors rolling out of Waterloo factories represents more than manufacturing. It represents Midwestern pride, American industrial strength, union jobs, and a relationship between the people […]
Trump the President vs Trump the Author
Trump the Author vs. Trump the President: The Contradictions in Why We Want You to Be Rich In 2006, nearly a decade before Donald Trump entered the White House, Trump joined Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, to publish Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men—One Message. The book delivered a […]
$1.5 Trillion for Military Budget
America Wants to Be Number One—Except in the Classroom American leaders constantly talk about being number one. We want the strongest military in the world. We want the largest economy. We want to lead the world in artificial intelligence, manufacturing, technology, space exploration and national defense. Presidents from both political parties regularly speak about maintaining […]
Robert Kiyosaki on Education
Robert Kiyosaki’s Criticism of the American Education System In Why “A” Students Work for “C” Students and Why “B” Students Work for the Government, Robert Kiyosaki challenges one of the most deeply rooted assumptions in American society: that academic success is the primary road to success in life. Kiyosaki does not argue that education itself […]
Schools Without Failure
: William Glasser’s Vision for Transforming Education William Glasser’s Schools Without Failure, first published in 1969, presents a powerful criticism of traditional education and an alternative vision of what schools could become. Glasser, a psychiatrist who became deeply interested in education, believed that too many schools were organized in ways that virtually guaranteed that some […]
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur on the Failure of the American Educational System Tupac Shakur is remembered primarily as one of the most influential artists in the history of hip-hop, but reducing Tupac to a rapper overlooks one of the most important aspects of his personality: he was an intellectual. Michael Eric Dyson makes this clear in Holler […]
Napoleon Hill’s Vision
Napoleon Hill’s Vision for American Education—and How We Can Get There Nearly ninety years ago, Napoleon Hill wrote Outwitting the Devil, a provocative examination of fear, conformity, personal responsibility, and human achievement. Although the manuscript was written in 1938 and published decades later, some of its most striking passages concern education. Hill believed the American […]
Hip-hop & Chinese Culture
“I Hope You Get Rich”: What Chinese Culture and Hip-Hop Can Teach America About Wealth There may appear to be little connection between Chinese New Year and American hip-hop culture. One developed from traditions stretching back centuries in China; the other emerged largely from Black and Latino communities in New York City during the 1970s. […]