Random Thoughts of a Muddled Mind

A recent blog by Professor John Mark Reynolds highlights a coming problem for our nation.

Early this year, at back to school night, I was asked,

“Why are you having the students do these blogs?”

…my answer was that this was an opportunity to teach students to read, analyze and then compose intelligent, well articulated arguments. I know some of you do not enjoy blogging, oh well…I know you NEED to do this. I was convinced a couple of years ago, after reading the book In, But Not Of by Hugh Hewitt, that every serious student needed to blog. We do not do this to build social skills, you have those. We do this because you need to be thinkers…real thinkers, capable of reading and understanding high end, challenging material, analyzing it, dissecting it, and then making informed comments on what you have read. We have plenty of people in this world who parrot whatever they read or see on television…we don’t need any more.

Those who have these skills will likely be the leaders of the future…and the leaders will be the one’s most likely to enjoy the fruits of their labor.