Back in the late 1980s a friend of mine wrote a grant request for a program to recapture, as it was, kids who were dropping out of school. He called it Project Regroup. He wrote it specifically with me in mind hoping that I would apply for the position when it was offered. I did. I interviewed with a group from University of Washington School of Education/Special Education division. I had not taken any of their classes, but I had at that time somewhere in excess of 20 years of successfully running classes for level four Emotionally/Behaviorally Disabled students. During the interview I was asked a number of question which required that I answer using the current jargon being taught at the University. Instead I gave straight forward answers based on years of actual classroom experience. Those, apparently, weren't what they were looking for. I wasn't hired, and the program disappeared from the district's offerings the next year. They were more interested in how you regurgitated the party line than in how effectively your worked with damaged kids. This was a pretty good forward to where the universities were going. The Schools of Education were the perfect medium in which to grow the imbecility of leftist thinking, and from there the disease spread through the Liberal Arts. It strikes me now that the only cure is to burn down the entire system since it is totally contaminated with the virus, and there is no cure for those infected which are, unfortunately, most of the inhabitants.
“Lockdown Dissidents” is both a reminder of the lunacy we endured and a tribute to the courageous folks who, despite great professional and personal risk, stood athwart power-grabbing leftism and evil at its worst.
The heroics featured in the film deserve more publicity and more praise.
Abolishing faculty senates is a start to reforming higher education, but no fundamental reform will occur until 90% of the administrative jobs are elminated.
I never, for one moment, thought it was anything more than an op, Tim. But then, my mother taught me very early on in life to know, and never forget, that democrats are evil.
Gene Krupa would have had a heart attack if he walked into a studio and saw Nilles' drum kit. But if he recovered, he would have had a wild time with it.
Excellent article, Professor Steve. But why do you believe it's useful to use a word most of us will have to Google to understand? How many can guess the word I refer to?
Parents and students have paid huge sums to be lied to in every way possible by self-important charlatans. These types scratch each other's back to create a dumpster-ready literature.
You are a national treasure; I am frustrated that I do not have the time to read everything you share with us. That's on me, of course--and I will read the Civitas piece on Gordon Wood, whose work on the American Revolution was part of my undergrad history course at the University of Michigan some 40 years ago.
Oh, and about that postmodern blasphemy that "all truth is subjective": I love how these charlatans state the premise and treat it as objectively true. Matthew 7:3 seems apposite here.
Pity Einstein if he'd been born a century later. Heisenberg might not have fared too badly. The Uncertainty Principle states that there is no objective right answer, only probabilities. (Until the function pops, anyway.)
Back in the late 1980s a friend of mine wrote a grant request for a program to recapture, as it was, kids who were dropping out of school. He called it Project Regroup. He wrote it specifically with me in mind hoping that I would apply for the position when it was offered. I did. I interviewed with a group from University of Washington School of Education/Special Education division. I had not taken any of their classes, but I had at that time somewhere in excess of 20 years of successfully running classes for level four Emotionally/Behaviorally Disabled students. During the interview I was asked a number of question which required that I answer using the current jargon being taught at the University. Instead I gave straight forward answers based on years of actual classroom experience. Those, apparently, weren't what they were looking for. I wasn't hired, and the program disappeared from the district's offerings the next year. They were more interested in how you regurgitated the party line than in how effectively your worked with damaged kids. This was a pretty good forward to where the universities were going. The Schools of Education were the perfect medium in which to grow the imbecility of leftist thinking, and from there the disease spread through the Liberal Arts. It strikes me now that the only cure is to burn down the entire system since it is totally contaminated with the virus, and there is no cure for those infected which are, unfortunately, most of the inhabitants.
“Lockdown Dissidents” is both a reminder of the lunacy we endured and a tribute to the courageous folks who, despite great professional and personal risk, stood athwart power-grabbing leftism and evil at its worst.
The heroics featured in the film deserve more publicity and more praise.
More proof that a penis is not required to play Peart's part in 'Tom Sawyer'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u_bs_b7I0E
Someone should tell that to Zelenskyy regarding his piano act. 🐱
Abolishing faculty senates is a start to reforming higher education, but no fundamental reform will occur until 90% of the administrative jobs are elminated.
AI should make that a cinch.
There will never be another Neil Peart, but I wish Annika all the best. I don't think covid was a public policy blunder anymore, I think it was an op.
I never, for one moment, thought it was anything more than an op, Tim. But then, my mother taught me very early on in life to know, and never forget, that democrats are evil.
Gene Krupa would have had a heart attack if he walked into a studio and saw Nilles' drum kit. But if he recovered, he would have had a wild time with it.
Excellent article, Professor Steve. But why do you believe it's useful to use a word most of us will have to Google to understand? How many can guess the word I refer to?
Being of the tech profession, I just thought it had something to do with a dongle. And drooping.
Consider it an opportunity to expand your vocabulary. See? I fixed it.
What did you fix?
Really?
Parents and students have paid huge sums to be lied to in every way possible by self-important charlatans. These types scratch each other's back to create a dumpster-ready literature.
Steve,
You are a national treasure; I am frustrated that I do not have the time to read everything you share with us. That's on me, of course--and I will read the Civitas piece on Gordon Wood, whose work on the American Revolution was part of my undergrad history course at the University of Michigan some 40 years ago.
Oh, and about that postmodern blasphemy that "all truth is subjective": I love how these charlatans state the premise and treat it as objectively true. Matthew 7:3 seems apposite here.
The Civitas piece is now up here: https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/gordon-s-wood-and-the-american-revolution-cc79d8f6-bafc-44f4-a52f-2801ba05aad0
Pity Einstein if he'd been born a century later. Heisenberg might not have fared too badly. The Uncertainty Principle states that there is no objective right answer, only probabilities. (Until the function pops, anyway.)