We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fifteenth: We’ve all run into teachers who think like this: There is One Truth and I am in possession of it. So important is it that students must believe it and it alone. Alternative ideas are a waste of time […]
Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists [Open College transcript] Read More »
My heart sank a little when I saw the trio come down the aisle of the airplane. A mother with two young children, and the three seats in front of me were open in a mostly filled airplane. The boy, approximately five years old, arrived first and slid his way over to the window seat.
Anecdote: How Cry-bullies and Snow-fakes Are Made Read More »
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the fourteenth: Steve Jobs’s conflictual school experiences raise a question: Did Steve Jobs fail to adapt himself to the system, or did the school system fail to fit Steve Jobs? Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website,
Educating Entrepreneurs, Or Why Steve Jobs Hated School [Open College transcript] Read More »
Old-time racists and sexists said: “Clear thinking — it’s not for woman, minorities, and gays.” Social-Justice Wokists today say: “Exactly!!” Rigorous thinking, according to some, is a virtue that leads to safe high-voltage electrical systems, pharmaceutical doses that are precisely calibrated, and bridges that stay up. Not so, says engineering Professor Donna Riley. Rather it
“Can women and minorities think rigorously?” The SJW say “No” Read More »
At James Lindsay’s New Discourses site, check out Calum Anderson’s “A Postmodern Inquisition: Faculties of (Re)-Education?” Today, teacher training programs have embraced a secular orthodoxy in postmodernism, an ideology which exalts activism and social justice to the detriment of discourse and critical thinking. Ironically, today’s activists closely resemble Galileo’s inquisitors. While dissenting voices may not
Faculties of (Re-)Education: Training the Teachers Read More »
I agree with the university’s decision to drop Wilson’s name. The man’s anti-individualism came in many terrible versions: racist, socialist, and statist-democratic. Here’s Professor Wilson, before he became President, endorsing democratic socialism: ‘State socialism’ … proposes that all idea of a limitation of public authority by individual rights be put out of view, and that
On Princeton’s re-naming the Woodrow Wilson school Read More »
Via Ryerson’s Centre for Free Expression: “Something very wrong has happened at the University of Alberta. A professor has been fired from part of her academic job for views on sex and gender that break with current orthodoxy. “In late March, Kathleen Lowrey … was asked to resign … on the basis that one or
Another university behaving badly: Alberta and Professor Lowrey Read More »
thinkspot’s Mike Nayna’s three-part series on Evergreen College’s pomo/SJW ideolological culture and the ensuing racist-political-correctness-witch-hunt.
The Evergreen College affair — Nayna documentary Read More »