What sort of instruction is best depends on who is being taught, and what sort of government is best depends on who is being ruled.
Nov 132023
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
Oct 252023
Why are children better at learning languages than adults? Because children are better at learning than adults.
Oct 192023
Pretension is a debt, a loan taken against future learning. Sometimes the debtor pays it off; more often he becomes a bankrupt.
Oct 132023
It is now possible to be innocent of mathematics, science, history, logic, and languages, and unblushingly refer to oneself as educated.
Aug 282023
I can no longer read of an academic conference without thinking of the scene in Love and Death when Woody Allen and Diane Keaton bring their village idiot to a village idiots’ convention, where they are greeted by a huge banner reading WELCOME IDIOTS.
Mar 172023
Students need to see thinking in action. Instead they are shown thinking accomplished, and the two look nothing alike.
Jan 262023
School penalizes the student mildly for knowing less than the examiners, and harshly for knowing more.
Jan 092023
Americans don’t read for pleasure; the books we are assigned in high school see to that.
Nov 302022
Everyone wants higher standards, just not lower grades.
Nov 282022
What audiences love and critics hate is likely vulgar; what audiences hate and critics love is likely malicious.