Category: Education
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Against Academentia
This is a good article! Its actual title leaves something to be desired.
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Becoming Educated
Part of becoming educated is becoming aware of how poorly one has been educated.
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On Relevance in Philosophy Education
Substack latest.
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The Assault on Merit
Here: In the case at issue, the leaders of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ—a highly selective public magnet school in Fairfax County, Virginia—bemoaned the demographic imbalance that resulted from the school’s academics-focused admission policies. (The class of 2024, for example, is more than 70 percent Asian, and Hispanics and blacks…
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The Purpose of Schooling
According to Anthony Esolen, The purpose of schooling—which is not the same as education—is to encourage people to express confident platitudes, which they are pleased to call their opinions, about things they know nothing of. This is far worse than ignorance. Esolen is (usually) a good writer and a clear thinker who often communicates important…
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Somerville/Blondel on Education
Once widely understood, now forgotten: It is not expedient that all truths be indiscriminately communicated to every student regardless of age or temperament. Premature truths can do more harm than good; for just as it is criminal to anticipate the age of puberty with indiscrete revelations, similarly, intellectual irresponsibility on the part of the teacher…
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Is Graduate School Really That Bad?
100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School is now at reason #98. Despite its unrelenting negativity, prospective applicants to graduate programs will find the site useful. I cannot criticize it for being negative since that is its implied purpose: to compile 100 reasons not to go. But there is something whiny and wimpy about it. Suppose you are paid to…
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Another Leftist Assault on Merit
New York's Bozo de Blasio goes after a great high school, Stuyvesant High School, the crown jewel of the New York City school system. In a better world, we wouldn’t care about the racial and ethnic composition of the Stuyvesant student body. That it’s the strongest it can be, in academic terms, would be all that mattered.…
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The Liberal Destruction of Public Education
Sol Stern, What I Saw in the Schools. Excerpt: Many of my sons’ teachers were trained at Columbia University’s Teachers College or the nearby Bank Street College of Education. At these citadels of progressivism, future educators were inculcated in the “child-centered” approach to classroom instruction. All children, in this view, were “natural learners” who—with just…
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Soccer Moms Against Common Core
An article by Jason Riley, a black conservative I highly recommend. Unfortunately, in this brief piece he does not penetrate to the philosophical heart of the matter by making the important point that education is not a legitimate function for the Federal government. Education is properly conducted by parents, families, and the local institutions of…