Education - Quillette (Page 14)

The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice

Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.

Nigel Biggar

27 Aug 2019 · 19 min read

For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery

The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were.

Anthony Abraham Jack

24 Aug 2019 · 12 min read

The Knowledge Gap—A Review

This is a dimension where knowledge of the world—that same prior knowledge that needs activating—is the last thing that it would occur to anyone to actually teach children in schools.

Greg Ashman

8 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus

Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he

Quillette / Toby Young

7 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

The Other Crisis in Psychology

psychological scientists recognize unwarranted causal inferences when evaluating others’ research but miss it in their own, perhaps because of ideological and self-serving biases.

April L. Bleske-Rechek

30 Jul 2019 · 16 min read

When ‘Ethics Review’ Becomes Ideological Review: The Case of Peter Boghossian

To a modern research scientist, all of this will seem like common sense, and such principles now are taught even in some undergraduate courses.

Brayden Whitlock

29 Jul 2019 · 9 min read

The Role of Politics in Academic Philosophy

Clearly it is possible to do politics in philosophy without doing political philosophy.

Oliver Traldi

26 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Age of Amnesia

The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.

Joel Kotkin

15 Jul 2019 · 9 min read

From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost

Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate.

Clay Routledge

13 Jul 2019 · 21 min read

Conservatives in Philosophy: A Brief Rejoinder to Tristan Rogers

If the whole academe is meant to pursue truth, then it can be fine for different traditions to develop that are not perfect ideological representatives of society at large.

Shelby T. Hanna

12 Jul 2019 · 5 min read

Cornell students emerging from Willard Straight Hall after the takeover.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.

Tony Fels

25 Jun 2019 · 27 min read

Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College

The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.

Daniel McGraw

20 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

Science vs. Purpose: The College Board’s New Adversity Index

Claims over what is being measured by a standardized assessment (referred to as a test’s construct) are where claims of scientific rigor can distort understanding of social goals associated with a particular test.

Jonathan Haber

12 Jun 2019 · 7 min read

How the 'Underground Grammarian' Taught Me to Tell Reason from Rubbish

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Mark Andre Alexander

10 Jun 2019 · 13 min read

The Bitter Debate over School Discipline

It may be neither politically correct nor pleasant to argue that aggregate group differences in behavior exist, but it’s essential for policymakers to have the proper diagnosis lest the prescribed cure do more harm than good.

Max Eden

31 May 2019 · 6 min read