— That’s all I could think when I read this. And not only are these “teachers” ennobling ignorance, but this is being done intentionally. Because the ignorant — fueled with the fatuous self-esteem they’ve no so much as earned as been granted (for FAIRNESS!) — make the perfect useful idiots for the political prestidigitators on the left who seek to control this newly-minted army of self-important imbeciles, a brigade of linguistically-controlled dupes who can’t reason and who can only really express themselves in base emotional outbursts, expressions of their “agency” which amount to little more than credentialed adult tantrums.
I referenced this from Lincoln the other day, but it bears repeating here: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Well. Q.E.-fuckin’-D.
(thanks to Blake)
The notion of “grievance communities” really rankles. It implies a permanence of grievance, the very idea of which is antiethical to the idea of community.
And taking the writing out of writing…? Really?
Brains are for losers. Hearts are for winners. Niener, niener…wingnuts!
How absolutely depressing. I am trying to lay an exceptional foundation for my children for later on in life when they traipse through the institutions formerly known as “higher learning”.
The key is that you insure the masses remain ignorant – of history and language and science – than you can completely dominate them.
the BS elitist empty garbage that comes out of the pie-holes of the “better-educated” is case in point. And the dunces nod along to their highfalutin edu-speak, not having the tools to rigorously examine the ideas being pushed upon them.
Language is one of the easiest ways to do this. You can’t explain high concepts to someone that simply understand the words, structure, or meaning.
As the author said here:
In bypassing the traditional modes of argument, teachers deny students the very tools necessary to make and “critical analysis” of their teachers’ political objectives.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I recall a statement by a Stanford English professor some years ago in which he stated we should “free students from the tyranny of the five paragraph essay.” Combine that sentiment with the gradual shift from classical rhetoric as the basis for composition, content envy on the part of composition teachers, the move to “expressionist,” i.e. all writing is about personal feelings, beliefs and experiences, and progressive dogma, and you have a situation where 140 character Tweets are deemed “writing.”
Sometimes, I just want to sit down and weep.
Proper, consistent grammar is now a form of white privilege? Don’t these credentialed idiots remember when the ridiculous Ebonics movement was laughed off the stage?
Maybe they do, and they’re out for revenge…
I’m starting to wonder if nature truly abhors a vacuum.
From further down in the article, a workshop on working with imprisoned lumpenproles
To which a particularly fuckheaded commenter responded:
:: facepalm ::
I saw that, too, Spiny Norman. Yes, that is exactly how Dr. Mary, and her fascisty fascists want to run colleges. You can’t get anything past these guys.
“If you shot at me, where’s your gun, huh?”
“Well, ya got me, sport. I don’t have one.”
— Ruthless People
Nine years of college down the drain.
I liked the line about Grabar retiring to her hotel room to recover from the headache caused by all the drumming.
I’d like to corner some of these “academics” and see if they really believe the drivel they espouse. I suspect the true answer in a lot of cases is that “it’s a gig that doesn’t require much effort and pays well.”
It isn’t about keeping people ignorant… it is about releasing a plague out into the workforce.
Go ahead, hire a gender studies major or an ethnic studies major to work in your business.
Do you think productivity is going to rise? Or will you be bogged down in lawsuits and reeducation camps?
Anyone who has sat through a two day seminar on how to treat gays,lesbians, and people of color in the workplace can feel the pain… and see productivity just fucking die.
Every year thousands of young men and women graduate with degrees in ethnic studies; gender studies… and wtf are they going to do that makes us more competitive in the world economy?
They are arguably a net loss; each and every one of them.
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