….the US educational system is failing because it has a confused goal. It is too many things to too many people. To most parents, it’s free daycare. To sociologists, it’s a way to keep kids off the streets. To others it’s a chance for government subsidy to right social wrongs. Many view it as a force for equality. What is missing is a simple statement like “our goal is to offer education to those who can take advantage of it.”
(HT: Brett Stevens, Amerika.org)
Read More »The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47 percent of adults in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, with staggering rates recorded in some of the suburbs as well: Southfield at 24 percent, Warren at 17 percent and both Inkster and Pontiac at 34 percent illiterate. (HT: Detroit Regional Workforce Fund) I was just kidding with the provocative subtitle. The South should not rise | Read More »
Daffyd over at The Big Lizards Blog begins an excellent post on some of the problems of Modern Leftism with a timely reprint of the opening paragraph of the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. short story Harrison Bergeron. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody | Read More »
Across a wide range of schools, As represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988. Ds and Fs total typically less than 10% of all letter grades. Private colleges and universities give, on average, significantly more As and Bs combined than public institutions with equal student selectivity. (HT:Mark J. Perry) Hey! You wannna | Read More »
A fully accredited college education for the price of a Honda Civic. College? Don’t pay $50,000 for three years, and then your kid drops out. College? Pay for your child’s education, not four years of party time. Wal-Mart University: Save Money. Learn Better. – Gary North. America has an increasingly bad problem with its University system. It costs too much to attend, and the graduates | Read More »
It seems that the gallant and worthy citizens of The Renowned and Ancient Kingdom of Spain don’t particularly like austerity. They’ve taken to the streets of Madrid to Rodney King Riot the heck out of their already crumbling and inadequate municipal infrastructure. Traditionally, here in America, we don’t appreciate austerity either. Americans have a different mode of coping – we seek gainful employment. The Spaniards | Read More »
NFL junkies like myself are aware of an old curse that has afflicted the fortunes of Kansas City Chiefs football teams ever since they tore down their old complex and built Arrowhead Stadium. This curse, The Curse of Arrowhead, is perhaps not as virulently toxic as having Dan Snyder LBO your favorite team. However, it supposedly explains why the team stopped being competitive in Super | Read More »
“Manly men, do manly things, in manly ways!” – Traditional Rugby Pre-Game Cheer. In the mind of Historian Barbara Tuchman, French Noble Enguerrand de Coucy (1340-1397), exemplified manly virtue. In her masterwork of comparative history, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century she describes Coucy as a “whole man in a fractured world.” Today our world increasingly fractures. Little mistakes in diplomacy, in economics and | Read More »
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.” – Halder Camara The Alabama Education Association (AEA) is violently at war with Eastasia. They always have been. Rumors of their prior conflicts with Eurasia need to be expunged through proper doublethink. At least that’s what I’m left to | Read More »
Decency necessitates a prayer for those who have lost members of their immediate family to senseless violence. I encourage all of you to ask God’s healing mercy towards those who lost loved ones when Dr. Amy Bishop opened fire and killed at least three professors at University of Alabama Huntsville last Friday. When the grieving has been completed, and the departed have been bid farewell, | Read More »
“Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skillful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.” – John Stuart Mill. The fundamental conventional wisdom that every child born to man should strive to attend college is comfortable, sounds good, and comes from a | Read More »
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