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...system fall into this trap? Primarily, says Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman, because it was "designed for a world that no longer exists." In 1935--or even in January 1940, when the first checks were mailed--the U.S. was a much smaller, poorer country, still ravaged by the Great Depression that struck with special savagery at the old. Those people lucky enough to have jobs were overwhelmingly male. Even more important, the world had yet to hear of organ transplants and the manifold other wonders of modern medicine. Once they were available, along with the better nutrition and sanitation that...
...says that teaching writing in a university promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world." Creative writing classes, he claims, take away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself...
Rascoff claims that "one can write--creatively even--without going to writing classes." But the same argument can be made for most classes. It is possible to study--Milton even--without going to a class on the subject. Extensive literature (often by the professor teaching the course) about the subject matter of most courses is readily available...
School administrators and parents around the country were expressing similar concerns last week. When economist Milton Friedman proclaimed in 1974 that "there's no such thing as a free lunch," he captured the truth that nothing comes without some cost. But the costs of the National School Lunch Act, passed in 1946, also yields real benefits. It enables around 14 million children to eat nutritious lunches for free or at reduced prices at a total cost to taxpayers of $4.454 billion. But not since the notorious condiment incident of 1981, when the Reagan Administration attempted to reclassify catsup and pickles...
Smith's artistic talents were evident when he was a youngster in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he liked to draw when he wasn't playing basketball. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, he set out for New York City. Studies with graphic-art doyen Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts culminated in a "dream job" in TIME's art department. His four-day work schedule gives him time for his own painting-mixed media on panels-which has resulted in several one-man shows...