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Schooling

Manufacturing stupidity.


Oct 052017
 

Behind every wise child are several foolish adults.

Sep 182017
 

A class of failed disciplines — psychiatry, education, macroeconomics — unable to raise the mean, lower the variance and declare victory.

Jul 312017
 

The full-grown model pupil speaks of “problems” to be “solved”, as if the world were a textbook and these the exercises.

May 172017
 

Who, after seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year in school, hasn’t thought, at least once, about shooting up the place?

Apr 262017
 

Elite is a rather flattering term for what is in fact a clutch of overgrown teacher’s pets.

Mar 142017
 

Discipline, n.   A field of study in which little discipline is exhibited.

Feb 082017
 

The medieval church had a juster claim as guardian of the life of the mind than the contemporary university.