Donald Lober

Husband, dad, secondary history teacher, & football coach

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MARC ANDREESSEN: "We had meetings with the Biden admin where they told us to not even start AI companies because there's no way they'll let them succeed."

JOE ROGAN: "What do you do after a meeting like that?"

MARC ANDREESSEN: "You go endorse Donald Trump."

LMAO

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Clint Eastwood turns 96 today.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

My government paid $2 million! for a bathroom in a park. Yet it’s often empty, and it’s already missing a sink.

By contrast, this public but PRIVATELY RUN park spent much less, while renovating a public toilet so well that people line up to use it.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

@FixingEducation I work at a winery. It's a seasonal industry where I live, so it works out nicely. Tips are decent and a huge discount on wine makes it worth it.

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

Not teaching students math facts because they can use calculators, spelling rules because they have spell check, historical dates because they can google it, or writing skills because they have Al is a travesty. Depriving students of these things enslaves them to technology rather than freeing them to flourish as human beings.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

@eduleadership Preach on!

[Jamie Kennedy @JamieKennedy]

I owe an apology to every NUN who taught me throughout my formative school years. I would gladly take the finger pointing, poking, ruler waving and ear pulling ANYDAY, compared to the radicalized school teachers we have today. You were tough, you were intense and you were aggressive but you taught me to be accountable, respect of elders and when to listen. For that I thank you! 🙏.

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

As seen on the "Classical Education" page on FB.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Schools across the US are reversing years of technology-first classroom policies after studies show laptop and screen use has either decreased test scores or produced no improvement. Maine adopted one-to-one laptop policies in 2002 and showed no improvement after 15 years.
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told the Senate that frequent in-class computer use correlates with significantly lower math and science scores across both high and middle income countries, and that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower than their parents on standardized tests. Schools in Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan and elsewhere are restricting laptop use and returning to pen and paper, with some reporting improvements in reading comprehension within months.

My Take
The data here is hard to argue with. Fifteen years of laptops in Maine classrooms produced no improvement in test scores. Schools that switched back to pen and paper saw reading comprehension improve within months. The technology industry spent billions convincing schools that screens were the future of learning, and the evidence is pointing in the opposite direction.

We're pulling laptops out of elementary classrooms in 2026 at the same moment we're deploying AI into hospitals, courtrooms, and financial systems that depend on humans being able to think critically, catch errors, and exercise judgment. The children who spent their formative years navigating text boxes instead of working through problems on paper are the same people who will be asked to oversee those AI systems in ten years. If the screen-first approach genuinely stunted the development of analytical thinking it was supposed to enhance, we have a compounding problem that goes well beyond test scores.

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[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

@3MomWarrior @FixingEducation We don't in my district, but true enough.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

@DrBradJohnson I don't always agree with your posts, but this is spot on!

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

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[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Islamic Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia

I sense that too many Americans do not understand the public face-saving that is integral to Islamic culture in the Middle East and Central Asia.

I recall numerous times I dealt with government or military officials in the region where they let me know that what was being said publicly was in no way related to what was actually going on. A leader or politician in these countries will never, ever publicly say the truth if the truth suggests weakness or vulnerability. Never. It just does not happen. They will lie publicly with outrageous bombast, knowing full well that what they are saying is untrue, because their culture demands it.

Additionally, they respect the strongman. The strongman who speaks with ferocity and then backs it up with deeds is always respected (or feared, depending on the situation).

These are vital concepts to understand when analyzing the public pronouncements of the Iranian regime and the Truth Social declarations of President Trump. The Iranians must save face no matter what. Literally none of their public pronouncements can be trusted as being accurate or truthful. At the same time, when Trump posts things like “ending a civilization,” he is NOT TALKING TO YOU. He is talking to the mullahs in the only language they understand. In fact, as the Democrat/Media Complex derides Trump as an idiot for such pronouncements, HE is the one who is culturally attuned in a very profound way that totally flies over the heads of his critics.

These are vital concepts that must be understood to accurately interpret the very public exchange of declarations between Trump and the mullahs.

[Donald Lober @dllober]

@DrJStrategy Amen, brother!

[Rachel Lu @rclu]

So apparently immersing adolescents in a therapeutic self-help culture doesn’t in general make them happier, better people.

I’m shocked. I mean what the heck are schools supposed to teach? Literature?

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[Kevin Monk 🇬🇧 ⏩ @KevinMonk]

@KonstantinKisin The full speech here:

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[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

He was DEFEATED ELEVEN TIMES.

Attacked. Threatened with DEATH. Nearly blind.

Addicted to opium just to function. They told him to stop. He spent forty-six years refusing.

His name was William Wilberforce. Born in Hull, 1759.

He could have lived a comfortable life. Wealthy family. Safe seat in Parliament.

Instead he chose to destroy the most powerful economic system in the British Empire.

The slave trade.

He didn't fight alone. Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence.

Olaudah Equiano, man who had been enslaved himself, gave testimony that no politician could ignore.

Wilberforce took their evidence to Parliament.

They voted no. He came back. They voted no. He came back. Lost by eight votes.

MPs deliberately stayed away so they wouldn't have to choose a side.

He came back. Again. And again. And again.

By now his eyesight was nearly gone. His body was breaking. He'd been on opium since he was 29.

Twenty years after he started, they voted again.

283 to 16.

The slave trade was abolished.

But he wasn't finished. Slavery itself was still legal. He fought for another twenty-six years.

In July 1833, lying in bed, barely able to move, he received word. Parliament had voted. Slavery was abolished across the entire British Empire.

Three days later, William Wilberforce died.

He held on just long enough.

They buried him in Westminster Abbey.

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