Tag: Robber Barons

Institutional Education?

“Education? We don’t want thinkers! We want workers!”   So said John D. Rockefeller, one of the most prominent of the Robber Barons as he explained what he wanted from the school system around the turn of the 20th century.   And our North American Educational System has been...

A Little Trip Down Memory Lane….

A couple of issues back we did a story on the old Stewart farmhouse, “Hillhurst” in Perth-Andover, and how the enterprising Stewart Sisters ran it as a tourist home back in the good old days.   We got a lot of comments on that piece, and in particular, lots...