Education - Quillette (Page 4)

Universities Have a Sustainability Problem

The era of disconnected, infinite knowledge production should draw to a close.

Robert Frodeman

5 Sep 2022 · 7 min read

Walkout at Milton Academy

When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

Randall Kennedy and Harvey Silverglate

8 Aug 2022 · 4 min read

The Real Challenges Facing Public Education

Critical Race Theory is a distraction and 'equity' is just a buzzword. A new book by an award-winning teacher argues that the real challenges facing public education go much deeper than political ideology.

Shane Trotter

1 Aug 2022 · 10 min read

The ACT Discriminates

...but not in the way you might expect.

Frederick R. Prete

16 Jul 2022 · 13 min read

What Is the Point of Tenure?—A Roundtable

Tenure creates a dual world where some professors enjoy more freedom than others.

Bo Winegard, Charles Negy, and Alexander Riley

12 Jul 2022 · 13 min read

The Emptiness of Constructivist Teaching

In teaching students that all knowledge is constructed through their own interactions, we fail to give them satisfying answers about the world and its meaning.

Patricia Rice Doran

29 Jun 2022 · 9 min read

The Disgraceful Firing of Joshua T. Katz

Joshua Katz knew it was dangerous to go public with his objections to a Princeton faculty letter, but he did so because his conscience demanded it. For this, he has paid an intolerable price.

The Quillette Editorial Board

26 May 2022 · 13 min read

Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?

In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written

Greg Ashman

14 May 2022 · 7 min read

Academic Exile, Two Years On

Academia has become an intellectual prison, and many incarcerated professors are compelled to live a dual existence.

Bo Winegard

4 May 2022 · 13 min read

The Liberal Arts Are the Future

Most great scientists and inventors have some background in the liberal arts.

Auguste Meyrat

29 Apr 2022 · 7 min read

Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?

Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put

Rob Montz

15 Apr 2022 · 10 min read

‘Dissident Philosophers’—A Review

A review of Dissident Philosophers: Voices Against the Political Current of the Academy, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 320 pages (November, 2021) Dissident Philosophers, edited by T. Allan Hillman of the University of South Alabama and independent scholar Tully Borland, is a compilation

Spencer Case

30 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

Gender Ideologues’ Alarming Campaign to Get Kids While They’re Young

In the debate about the wisdom of medicalised gender change for the young, there is a common refrain meant to expose the moral panic and ignorance of sceptics. No young person, we are told, gets any medical intervention before puberty. This may be true, but it obscures the more telling

Bernard Lane

29 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

Stephen Kershnar and the Importance of Unaskable Questions

Unpopular, unorthodox and extreme opinions no less than any others need their spokesmen, in order that our chances of discovering truths and making wise decisions be increased. ~Joel Feinberg In January of this year, SUNY Fredonia ethicist Stephen Kershnar appeared on an episode of our philosophy podcast, Brain in a

Mark Oppenheimer and Jason Werbeloff

26 Mar 2022 · 8 min read

The Death of Authority in the American Classroom

“I learned ancient Greek just so I could read Aristotle in his own language.” It was early in the fall semester of my freshman year of college and we were reading a passage from Aristotle’s Politics in a political philosophy seminar. In addition to learning Aristotle’s view that

Jeremy S. Adams

25 Mar 2022 · 11 min read