The real victims (as usual) are the students.
Category Archives: Education
Gender-Free Bathrooms
I have a crazy idea that, at some point, colleges and universities that do this are going to have trouble attracting students.
Writing A Book
Four reasons why not to.
Senators Want More Money To Police Students’ Sex Lives
And @AsheSchow is on it.
Note that all but one are Democrats. Meet the new Puritans, same as the old ones.
Don’t Know Much About History
And yet, they vote. This will destroy the Republic if it continues.
The College Grievance Industry
The latest update on the insanity on campus from @AsheSchow.
[Update a few minutes later]
Students are paying tens of thousands of dollars per year in tuition for this?
[Update a while later]
Now University of Kansas crybullies are being triggered by Trump chalk.
What’s Happening At Emory University?
It’s a culture of victimhood.
[Update a couple minutes later]
An open letter to the administration from Emory alumni. I’d be embarrassed myself.
[Update early afternoon]
Schools like Emory trivialize education by empowering little student dictators.
And this is Harvard. “Cost of attending Harvard College: $64,400 per year.”
Ancient Warfare
I’m always amused by things like this:
Before the 1990s, “for a long time we didn’t really believe in war in prehistory,” DAI’s Hansen says. The grave goods were explained as prestige objects or symbols of power rather than actual weapons. “Most people thought ancient society was peaceful, and that Bronze Age males were concerned with trading and so on,” says Helle Vandkilde, an archaeologist at Aarhus University in Denmark. “Very few talked about warfare.”
Because they bought into Rousseau’s “noble savage” BS.
I suspect there’s still a lot more that we don’t know about human history than we do.
The Problems On Campus
Judith Curry’s thoughts on Michael Shermer’s thoughts:
Beyond Georgia Tech, I have visited many campuses over the past several years, and I was invited to talk in most instances to present an alternative perspective on climate change. One of the universities was Oberlin, which featured prominently in Shermer’s article. There is a club of young republicans and libertarians, which receives contributions from a donor to invite speakers on a range of topics to add diversity. Apparently I was sufficiently tame or insufficiently known to have instigated much of a backlash.
Apart from the social issues that are of primary concern in Shermer’s article, I am particularly concerned about all this promoting groupthink in terms of actual research in the social and natural sciences. I don’t see a near term solution, but I think that heterodox academy.org and the blogosphere are making a difference.
It’s an ongoing battle for freedom.
Gary Kasparov
“Hey, Bernie, don’t lecture me on socialism; I lived through it.”