The egalitarian’s hatred of excellence has metastasized throughout the culture. In order to level everyone down to the lowest common denominator, egalitarians sacrifice the achiever. Nowhere is this more dramatic–and tragic–than in education.
CULTURE
A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
Education Dollars at Work
President Clinton wants more money for education. He’s proposed tax credits and deductions for college students and large increases in Pell Grants for needy students. Clinton would have us believe that not enough students have a chance to go to the...
Black Education
For years I’ve said that if the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, they couldn’t find a tool more effective than the public school system in most major cities. The evidence of that tragedy continues. The latest is contained in a...
Education or Power Play?
Maryland must be a very safe state, because it has time to prosecute a mother who is teaching her daughter at home. The little girl of 7 scores above the national average on tests given by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which leading colleges across the...
To All Innocent Fifth Columnists
The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom.
Education and the Racist Road to Barbarism
The value of education is derived from the value of civilization, whose guardian and perpetuator education is supposed to be. An educational system dedicated to the barbarization of youth is a self-contradictory monstrosity that must be cast out and replaced with a true educational system. But this can be done only by those who genuinely understand, and are able to defend, the objective value of Western civilization.
Peter Drucker’s “The New Realities”
Sometimes creative understanding and interpretation of the present and the past can offer insightful suggestions about possible developments in the future.
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