“History Now? Diversity, Race, and Schooling” Dr. William Lloyd Fridley, speaking THE MORNING PROGRAM:  Download it HERE or read it below. America’s public schools, and in some cases colleges, are being subject to a host of measures regulating and restricting what is taught.  At least 36 states have adopted or introduced laws or policies that … Continue reading “History Now? Diversity, Race, and Schooling”

Author, educator, media theorist and social critic Neil Postman (1931-2003) argued that television was playing on our appetite for distraction as we amused ourselves to death.  Writing on the cusp of the internet, Postman warned of the dangers posed by the false god of technology for culture, politics, and education.  We’ll consider what he had … Continue reading Neil Postman, Prophet? Technology, Gods, and The End of Education.

In his 1863 booklet Utilitarianism, British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that he would “rather be Socrates unsatisfied than a pig satisfied.”  What would you rather be, and why? We will look at his reasoning on this and explore other thought experiments in values. William Lloyd Fridley is a professor of Education at Southeastern Oklahoma … Continue reading J.S. Mill’s Satisfied Pig: Thought Experiments in Values

Would you rather be close or far? How far is it, and how long till we get there, Sisyphus?  How close is too close, Icarus?  Oops, better ask Daedalus! William Lloyd Fridley, a longtime friend of the congregation. Fridley is an Associate Professor of Education and has been at Southeastern Oklahoma State University since 1999. … Continue reading Close to You? Distance and Communication.