Comments on: The Goals of a University Education

By: Spandrell

Spandrell — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 06:54:44 +0000

“Laying the foundations in just four years is a formidable challenge.”

What are the 12 years before that for again?

By: Lucklucky

Lucklucky — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:36:37 +0000

Universal education is by definition a socialist proposal if each alumni can’t go at their speed.

So what we have today in schools is giant sacrifice of best children for the teacher and ideology.

As things are this i defend that the best students should be paid a % from teacher salary.

By: Bub

Bub — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:54:38 +0000

I agree with Carl and, also, if the colleges started ever teaching the curriculum Pinker describes, they’d have a hard time with their affirmative action goals, and the faculty know this, though it dare not be spoken.

Don’t miss Steve Sailer’s recent article about a Hispanic lesbian NYU journalism grad student who was picked to write for the NYT and didn’t know what an editorial was. She didn’t realize how ridiculous it was that she didn’t know this, either. “Nobody ever told me!”

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:26:51 +0000

Academia does not select for teachers who inculcate those traits. Instead we have rigid, if ever shifting, ideological standards. Interestingly, the Cathedral agrees that four years is not enough; so they start instilling “liberal” values with children’s television.