A field that uncomprehendingly imitates the methods of a more prestigious field will also imitate its style: the result being writing that not even the author understands.
Aug 092019
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
Mar 132019
Teaching everyone to read leaves the difficulty of supplying vast amounts of reading matter suitable for everyone.
Feb 122019
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; and he who does, usually cannot teach.
Jan 212019
An infallible sign of fraudulence, in an academic department, is “studies” in its name.
Jan 182019
Life is a series of increasingly elaborate marshmallow tests.
Dec 062018
If only I could have school over again, to leave sooner and do worse.
Nov 052018
Public schooling profits only that narrow band of students, neither clever nor dim, from which all future public schoolteachers will be drawn.
Sep 042018
First we learn to stand and talk, and then we are taught to sit down and shut up.
Aug 152018
There are two reasons to be optimistic about children: parents don’t affect them much, and neither does school.
Aug 142018
Tenure would be an ideal system for the protection of heretical ideas if it were ever given to a person who might express one.