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What are Classics? • On Justifications for Studying the Humanities • The Humanistic Tradition • Humanistic Aims and Humanitarian Aims • The Humanities in Crisis • A Social Darwinist Curriculum • Character Development as a Curricular Aim • Responding to Various Arguments • On Irving Babbitt

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Fundamental Practices in the Art of Teaching • Tool Affordances and Human Effectivities • On Classrooms as Constrained Environments • The Business of Education • Tools Can Support Motivation • Pitfalls of The Profit Motive in the Education Space • Distinguishing Between Game-Based Learning, Gamification, and Gameful Learning • A Game as a Logical System • Gaming and Performance-Based Assessments • Environmental Constraints • Simulations/Games • An Example • On Historical Empathy • On Edutainment • Structural Values of Game-Based Learning • Historical Simulations and Inglorious Bastards

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Index
Conservative Professors and Job Satisfaction • A Conservative Case for Liberal Education • Campus Cultures • Demands, Dialogue, and Scrutiny • What We Talk About When We Talk About Being Reasonable • On Yielding to Reason as an Authority • What Purposes Do Colleges Serve? • On Media and a Few Perceptions of Campus Cultures • On the Role of Shame on College Campuses • “the culture of cool” • “call-out culture” • Reflections on Euthyphro • Cultivating a Culture of Reason • Intellectual and Democratic Virtues • Building a Bullshit Detector • An Examined Life • The Role of Shame in Learning • Inquiry and Reason on Universities

Works Mentioned (links @ decayofdiscourse.com)
> Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education [Amazon]

> Euthyphro [Google Books]

> Thinking Fast and Slow [Amazon]

> Harvard Holiday Placemat for Social Justice [Business Insider]

> Campus Reform [Twitter]

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Index
On the Evolution of Normal Schools • Transformative Moments in Teacher Education • The Making of the Middle Class • On State University Funding • Imperiled Working-Class Colleges • College Competition • The Pandemic Bait and Switch • On Administrative Mismanagement • “they see the dorm, rec center, and food.” • The Gap Year Considered • What Are Students Paying For? • Teaching and Learning in a Global Crises • Revealing Internet Inequities • New Lessons for Teachers • The Role of Educational Technology • Multiple Tools and Modalities • Fewer Concepts Taught to Mastery • The Banking System of Education is a Form of Repression

Mentioned Works
> How the Pandemic Is Imperiling a Working-Class College - New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/college-coronavirus-tuition.html)

> PISA - OECD (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/data/)

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Origins of the Term Syllabus • What Could a Syllabus Be? • Time and Permission to Think • Figuring out what the Questions Will Be • Learning How to Learn • Teaching and Storytelling • Telling Someone Something They Do Not Know is Not Teaching • Technology Altering What Education Means • Teachers, Students, and the Classroom: A Community • Syllabus as Social Contract • A Design For Student Work • Syllabus and Administrative Policies • On Various Perspectives In Regards to the Syllabus • Syllabus and the Inquiry Method • On the Flexibility of the Syllabus

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Liberal Arts in Decline • On the Value of a Liberal Arts Education • 2008 and the Diminution of Liberal Arts Colleges • What can the Humanities Offer Students? • Seeking a Remedy • The Five Themes of Cornerstone • A Thematic Approach to Gen Ed Requirements • Reading, Writing, and Presenting • "A career tailored major" • What is a Transformative Text? • Siddharta • On Teaching Core Texts • Defining Liberal Arts • Generations of Women Historians • CV Wedgwood • Grand Narrative Histories