"Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are."

Allan K. Chalmers

“There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.”

-La Rochefoucauld

Marva Collins, born August 31, 1936, to Henry and Bessie Knight, Jr. in Atmore, Alabama, is an educator who in 1975 started Westside Preparatory School in Garfield Park, an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. She ran the school for more than 30 years until it closed in 2008, due to lack of sufficient enrollment and funding. She is famous for applying classical education successfully with impoverished students, many of whom had been wrongly labelled as 'learning-disabled' by...

Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor), is the meta-theoretical principle that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). The term razor refers to the act of shaving away unnecessary assumptions to get to the simplest explanation.

 

The principle is attributed to 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. Occam's razor may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate...

"Seh-Ong Ji Ma"
(Seh-Ong's Wise Horse)


There was a farmer named Seh-Ong that had a beautiful and strong horse. The neighbors complimented, "You are so lucky to have such a beautiful and strong horse."

The farmer replied, "We'll see."


Days later, the horse ran away from the farm and could not be found. The neighbors wailed, "You are so unlucky to have lost such a beautiful and strong horse."

The farmer replied, "We'll see."


Days later, the farmer's horse returned, but had brought...