That’s kind of hyperbolic, but forgiving student loans is a pretty awful idea. As was subsidizing them in the first place.
Category Archives: Education
Brown University
Why not to send your son there. Of course, universities in general have become male-hostile zones.
It’s The Space Settlement, Stupid
I have some Columbus Day thoughts this morning over at Pajamas Media.
In Which A Leftist Journalist
…actually finds leftist bias in the curriculum.
The Wall Street Protesters’ Demands
A response.
This is the sort of thing I was referring to when I said that Democrats and the left are anti-economics.
This Is A University
“There’s no freedom of speech here.”
The New Deal Was “A Wrong Turn”?
Of course it was.
It’s apparently politically unacceptable to point out that truth, but that’s largely because of decades of political indoctrination in state-run lower and higher education. We were taught in school that Roosevelt “saved capitalism,” which always struck me as a similar phrase to the Vietnam-era “we had to destroy the village to save it.” It started us down the wrong road, and we’re rapidly approaching a cliff if we can’t bushwhack our way back to the right path.
I Agree With Instapundt
Exactly the same example hopped immediately into my mind.
[Update a couple minutes later]
“They all look alike to them“:
I’ve suggested in the past that Obama is Pumpsie Green and but was sold to us as Jackie Robinson, but on reflection I think it goes deeper than that.
I think the press had Pumpsie Green in front of them but saw Jackie Robinson. They deceived themselves and moreover wanted to be deceived. As far was the press was concerned their desire for the political equivalent of Jackie Robinson blinded them to the point where any semi-qualified black candidate became Jackie
So naturally when some of us on the right objected to a person who was totally unqualified for office the press went wild, because it directly challenged their illusion and cried racism when it was just the opposite.
We on the right saw not a black man, but an unqualified inexperienced Chicago pol who just happened to be black. The press meanwhile saw not an individual but a symbol, it didn’t actually matter who he was, it mattered that he was. Or to put it bluntly, they couldn’t tell Jackie Robinson from Pumpsie Green because “they all looked alike to them.”
If Branch Rickey had done this in 47 the majors might still not be integrated.
As I’ve often noted, the true racists are on the left, almost inherently.
[Update a few minutes later]
I agree with Instapundit on this, too: “Half a century ago, insecure white bigots needed to put down black people so they’d have someone to feel superior to. Now they use Mississippi.”
Want Less Inequality?
Stop subsidizing schools and universities. The whole system really is a disaster.
Kindness Over Education
Virginia Postrel has a column about Harvard’s bizarre PC loyalty oath:
Course registration versus niceness; success versus compassion; “attainment” versus kindness. Something is missing from all these dichotomies, and that something is the life of the mind.
Where in the list of ranked values are curiosity, discovery, reason, inquiry, skepticism or truth? (Were these values even options?) Where is critical thinking? No wonder the pledge talks about “attainment.” Attainment equals study cards and good grades — a transcript to enable the student to move on to the next stage. Attainment isn’t learning, questioning or criticizing. It’s getting your ticket punched.
Just one more sign of the decline of the academy, as costs continue to rise.