By Philip E. Johnson The classic approach to learning, worldwide and since the beginning of education, has been the general idea of the transfer of information. The younger generation needs to know the facts—everything from... Read More

By Bob Bhaerman As director of the Kochhar Humanist Education Center, whose mission is to offer lifelong education resources that teach positive humanist values, I often have been asked how the American Humanist Association plans... Read More

By Bernadette Cahill Women’s Equality Day (August 26) is a national commemorative day that deserves instant recognition by all citizens, like Martin Luther King day does, for it honors the heroes of the longest civil... Read More

Magma streams like rivers down the gape of an erupting volcano. It could symbolize the Roman god Vulcan, forging the pillars of the Earth. It could be Pele, the Hawaiian god of death and rebirth.... Read More

This week’s featured poems are by Samuel Menashe, a New York poet who received the first Neglected Masters Award in 2004 by Chicago’s Poetry Foundation. Menashe died in New York City on August 22, 2011.... Read More

If you like cryptograms or crossword puzzles, you’ll love Drop Quotes! Drop Quote puzzles contain a hidden quote. The spaces for each letter in the quote are laid out in the grid. Above each column... Read More

Comics by Jesus and Mo, Ape Not Monkey, and Atheist Cartoons on the subject of education.     [click to enlarge]