…in “higher” education. If I were a parent, I wouldn’t be wasting my money on thousands in tuition for this kind of nonsense.
Also related: the student debt bubble officially pops.
…in “higher” education. If I were a parent, I wouldn’t be wasting my money on thousands in tuition for this kind of nonsense.
Also related: the student debt bubble officially pops.
…are sexist, and waging a war on men.
What’s next?
…and other Cold War myths. I agree with Glenn:
Leaving aside the obscenity of comparing out-of-work screenwriters with gassed Auschwitz inmates, there’s this: Communists are no better than Nazis. Refusing to hire Communists is on the same moral plane as refusing to hire Nazis. Which is to say: It’s a good and admirable thing, not a sin. Go broke and starve, commies. It’s what you deserve for being eager, willing servants of totalitarianism.
That it’s perfectly acceptable to be a communist, but not a Nazi, in society at all, let alone teaching students on campus, is morally disgusting. All children of Rousseau should be ostracized in a truly liberal democracy.
Who said it, Rubio or Obama? It’s useful to point this kind of thing out, of course, and I’ve always thought that Chris Mooney’s theses were nonsensical — both parties have ideologies that are opposed to scientific reality.
But I disagree with this:
So Obama believes in evolution, and presumably he’d like to teach it in the nation’s public schools, while Rubio suggests that “multiple theories” should be given equal time. But even so, both men present the science as a matter of personal opinion. Obama doesn’t say, Evolution is a fact; he says, I believe in it.
Well, he shouldn’t say that, because evolution is in fact not a “fact.” It, like gravity, is a scientific theory. And it is perfectly philosophically legitimate to say that alternate theories should be taught in school, but it should be done not in a science class but in one on comparative religions (of which science is one). That there is an objective reality about which we can discover things through scientific methods is not a fact, or “truth,” but an axiomatic assumption. Science is a form of faith, but in terms of understanding the natural world, and forging new artificial creations from it, it is a very successful and powerful one.
Particularly teachers who have kids mark the faces of slow readers with permanent markers?
As Nick suggests, I think that the teacher should have “Moron” tattooed on her forehead.
…of public schools. This idea isn’t as good as outlawing public-employee unions, but it would be a good step.
Is it returning?
If so, it’s will be the fault of the feckless and naive who were trying to make it go away by pretending it doesn’t exist.
A failing school rates everyone working in it as highly effective. Well, they’re certainly highly effective at fleecing the taxpayers while subverting our youth.
Bill Whittle isn’t happy. But he hasn’t given up.