School selects partly for intelligence but mostly for compliance.
Sep 092020
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
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.
Nov 182019
It would not be possible for school to make us as stupid as it does without our native gifts.
Oct 282019
Academic press: Books that no one will read at prices that no one will pay.
Sep 242019
Ignorance, cultivated with sufficient rigor, is bliss.
Sep 162019
Merciful regimes kill the troublesome without insisting on reeducating them first.