Behind every wise child are several foolish adults.
Oct 052017
Schooling
Manufacturing stupidity.
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.
Jun 232017
What study says is often not what studies say.
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 282017
Spelling has gone the way of handwriting.
Apr 262017
Elite is a rather flattering term for what is in fact a clutch of overgrown teacher’s pets.
Apr 182017
Good students make good schools.
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.