For as much as we talk here about the anti-intellectualism of the right, I don’t think I’ve ever shared this piece of George Carlin video with you. (See below.) It’s only three minutes long, but it gets right to the heart of things. In it, Carlin says bluntly that public education in America will never […]
Tag Archives: critical thinking
The war against critical thinking
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, anti-intellectualism, behavior modification, biology, Bobby Jindal, challenging fixed beliefs, Christian Spurling, Colonel Robert Wilson, competing visions for the future of America, dismantling of public education, evolution, fixed beliefs, George Carlin, higher order thinking skills, hoaxes, libraries, Loch Ness Monster, Louisiana, Marmaduke Wetherell, philosophy, Plesiosaur, public education, public libraries, school vouchers, sea monsters, the future of America, Thom Elliott 86 Comments
CEOs running our schools… what could possibly go wrong?
If you’ll recall, a couple of weeks ago I posted some video here of State Senator Rebekah Warren commenting on Governor Rick Snyder’s Emergency Financial Manager Act. Warren noted, among other things, that there was no requirement that those emergency financial managers deployed to take over our State’s failing school systems have any background in […]
Posted in Education, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Chris Hedges, Education, education reform, Eli Broad, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Finish school system, Finland, Leadership Academy, Michael Bloomberg, no child left behind, parasitic teachers, Rebekah Warren, Rick Snyder, Superintendents Academy, teachers and their evil agendas, Texas Miracle, trends in American education 12 Comments
Bush administration sought to discredit local academic, Juan Cole
I don’t imagine that much will come of it, but the New York Times has learned that, during the Bush administration, employees of the CIA were instructed to unearth information that might be used to delegitimize the work of U-M professor Juan Cole, a well-regarded critic of the war in Iraq. The following clip comes […]