Get 'Em While They're Young
Political and ideological indoctrination of children is most effective when it begins early.
Oliver Waters
· 13 min read
Education
A collection of 16 posts
Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
Patrick Burns
· 6 min read
Infantilising Students Post-Election
These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
Matthew Stewart
· 5 min read
Dealing with the Reality That Not Everyone Can Succeed
Two traits — general intelligence and self-control — are perhaps our best individual level predictors of living a successful life.
Brian Boutwell
· 6 min read
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
What I Learned in My Women’s Studies Classes
Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
The Real Problem with Renaming Buildings on Campus: Logistics
Let’s face it: there is no logical, consistent way to approach renaming of buildings — especially when the protestors, themselves, are opposed to logical discourse.
Eva Glasrud
· 4 min read
Safe University
There was no reason anything should go wrong; she had her notes, and they had been screened by the department chair to ensure that they contained nothing offensive.
Henry Rambow
· 11 min read
Forget Microaggressions, Some Students Face Hunger and Homelessness
There are many who go hungry or homeless. How can students prosper without food? Or without a safe place to sleep?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Where Are the Conservative Professors?
In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative views.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Purity and Tolerance: The Contradictory Morality of College Campuses
Moral cultures reflect their social structures, and victimhood culture is no different: It occurs in a context where there is cultural diversity, social equality, and stable authority.
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning
· 7 min read
Feminism Blinds Students to the Truth About Men
Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
Emma C Williams
· 7 min read
The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids
Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
The Kids Are All Right
Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 22 min read