School inculcates the bad habit of finishing books, as if they were assignments.
Nov 112021
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
Aug 132021
Modern political theory has become bloodless, shunting off questions of wise and just policy to sister disciplines like economics and moral philosophy, and busying itself with quibbles over standing.
Jul 092021
Rigor, n. Buttressing one’s dubious claims with the dubious claims of previous authors; footnotes.
Dec 252020
Everyone has something to teach us; it is usually the valuable lesson that we need pay him no further mind.
Sep 092020
School selects partly for intelligence but mostly for compliance.
Jul 082020
It is frequently remarked that IQ tests measure your ability to perform well on IQ tests; the same could be said, more accurately, of school.
Mar 242020
To become expert in something is the only way to learn that you know nothing about anything else.
Feb 252020
Many academic fields are barren, most because there are no truths to discover, not a few because the practitioners are too dull to discover them.
Dec 162019
More education, touted by all sides as the solution for every conceivable social problem, has yet to fix a single one, though it has created a few.
Nov 292019
Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.