Three major problems faced by America’s colleges and universities — and their solutions.
Education
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort. – AYN RAND
Justice Kavanaugh and GMU Snowflakes
The 1215 Magna Carta limited the power of central government and it forced a reigning monarch to grant his English subjects rights. It laid the foundations for limited constitutional governments, an idea offensive to most leftists.
Spring Break in Caracas
Although it may be difficult today for American socialist students to study abroad in places like Cuba or North Korea, they could lobby U.S. officials to facilitate it.
More University Corruption
As a result of leftist indoctrination, many college students graduate illiterate, innumerate and resistant to understanding.
College Cheating Scandal: Academic Fraud Occurs at Every Level of Education
The first step toward any solution is for the American people to be aware of academic fraud that occurs at every level of education. Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people involved in cheating and bribery in order to get their children admitted to some...
Political Advocacy Disguised with Obscure Academic Jargon
What today’s academics write, and what journals treat as neutral science, tends to reinforce only one side of the political spectrum.
The “Hoax” Behind Politically Correct College “Studies”
How can a college criticize the hoaxers but revere ridiculous journals that publish nonsense? The real “hoax” is on students who pay thousands of dollars for useless degrees in fields that end in “studies.”
Capitalism: A Dirty Word For College Students
Most students have not been exposed before to the concept of laissez-faire capitalism and the central role the protection of individual rights play in it.
The Academy of Thought and Industry: A Better School?
The key for many students is to follow their own interests, rather than following orders.
This School Choice Week Bring John Stossel into Your Classroom
School Choice Week isn’t just about letting kids and parents choose where they go to school. It also means being able to choose what ideas they learn — including the concept of choice itself.
Black Education: A Glimmer of Hope
The most crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools or politicians.
Politically Correct Racism
According to the thinking of academia’s intellectual elite, a minority person cannot be a racist.
Miseducated or Stupid? American Millennials For Communism and Socialism
A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country.
Moral Bankruptcy of Teachers’ Unions and Their Politicians
A Success Academy charter elementary school in Harlem had a higher proportion of the children in one of its classes pass the statewide math exam than in any other class at the same grade level, anywhere in the state of New York.
Black Education: What Makes Sense?
There’s little question that charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.
Don’t Let Trump Hatred Thwart the Private School Choice Movement
Trump wants to give urban parents an opt-out of an underperforming government school. Resistance against Trump ought not to translate into resistance against parents who want a better future for their children.
The Fruits of College Indoctrination: Incivility, Censorship and a Contempt for Capitalism
Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed.
We Have an Identity Problem
It’s biology, and not political agendas, that determine one’s race and sex.
Doing Something About Mass Shootings In Schools
Organizing and signing online petitions against gun manufacturers may be emotionally gratifying but will not end gun violence.
The Anti-Capitalist Counter-Revolution On College Campuses
The intellectual intolerance and resort to physical force to prevent speakers from addressing students represents a dangerous totalitarian streak among so-called “progressives.”
Appeasing The Campus “Thought Police”: UCLA Bans Book at a Free Speech Event
If today’s students are increasingly hostile to intellectual freedom, can we really expect tomorrow’s voters, lawyers, judges, politicians to uphold free speech?
The Real Lessons of Middlebury College
So long as academia talks demographic “diversity” and practices groupthink when it comes to ideas, we have little reason to expect better of student mobs that riot with impunity.
Education at a Crossroads: Part II
One of the most successful schools I visited was in an aging building in a rundown ghetto neighborhood in New York, where a friend told me that I was “brave” — he meant foolhardy — to park a car.
Education at a Crossroads
Teachers’ unions have fought for years to prevent charter schools from being created.
Occidental College Responds to 9/11 Attack on Free Speech
On the 15th anniversary of the worst domestic terrorist attack in history—September 11—a college student’s memorial flag display was destroyed three times.
The New Black Segregation at California State University is Still Racism
The civil rights movement started out in the 1950s and 1960s as against white-black segregation. And now, half a century later, we’re back to full-fledged white-black segregation at California state schools.
VanDamme Academy: A Documentary Project
This video is a glimpse into the world of VanDamme Academy – a world we hope to share even more, in a full documentary.
Educational Socialism versus the Free Market for Education
What is needed is a radical change, and in my opinion, this means the denationalization, the full and complete privatization of schooling from kindergarten through graduate education.
Campus Lunacy, Part II
On the hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze.
Attacking The American Founding Fathers
The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.
College Campus Lunacy
Nothing opens the closed minds of administrators better than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping shut.
Individualism and Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender and Race Conflict: Trigger Words and College Safe Spaces
In our post-Soviet era, the Marxian framework and mind games have been transformed into issues concerning “gender” and “race” as well as “social class.”
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