Education

Liberal professors have trashed the liberal arts, by converting so many liberal arts courses into indoctrination centers for left-wing causes and fads, instead of courses where students learn how to weigh conflicting views of the world for themselves.

The very name “Common Core” is collectivist (i.e. socialist, communistic) in its orientation. It’s not a conspiracy; it’s deliberate. The bureaucratic intellectuals in Washington DC and elsewhere think this is a good thing.

Let’s update college indoctrination done in the name of education.

Thinking merged with indoctrination — imposing any kind of agenda from authority — is not education; it’s schooling.

Admitting students strictly on the basis of their academic qualifications, which might seem to be common sense, is rejected by many college admissions committees.

The best that politicians can do is to give parents and children who are serious about education a mechanism to opt out of rotten schools. That option is something the education establishment fights tooth and nail against.

Government freebies foster mediocre education — and expensive mediocre education, at that.

Focusing only on Professor Gruber’s arrogance, we ignore the more important fact that he is highly representative of the academic mindset — the people who are brainwashing our youngsters.

You can’t have it both ways, Jeb. Either the federal government controls the whole thing, or it doesn’t.

Colleges admitting underperforming black students conceal, foster and perpetuate the educational damages done to these youngsters in their earlier education.

Homeschoolers do just fine. Somehow, without government control, they prosper.

Universities ought to pay athletes a competitive salary in line with everyone else involved in college sports.

Nothing is easier than to prove that America, or any other society of human beings, is far from being the perfect gem that any of us can conjure up in our imagination.

Many teachers, at all grades, use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda.

A child can be years behind schedule in beginning to speak and yet go on to have a perfectly normal life.

Government intervention has done for the higher educational marketplace what it did for the real estate marketplace a decade back — created a bubble.

Bogus courses, silencing free speech and hatred of anything not “progressive” — this is what your college tuition pays for.

New York schools that achieve excellence in education are under attach by unions, community “leaders” and the “progressive” elite.

Americans fall easy prey to charlatans of all stripes because of the education establishment’s success in dumbing down the nation.

Why are college campus rapists not reported to the police and prosecuted in a court of law?

Objective observers see a bureaucratic, inefficient, and hopelessly out of touch ivory tower that is bleeding the country of its savings, and more tragically, its intellectual acuity.