“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."” ThinkingChildrenCommonStepsStudentsClaimsCriticalMathCoreInitiativeCritical ThinkingStep UpCommon CoreStep Children Author:David Harsanyi
“Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.” ArtIdeasSpiritualTeacherStudentsEmptyClaimsPatternsFakeMartial ArtsRitualSpiritual LifeTested Author:Sam Harris
“A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.” ReasonTeachStudentsClaimsCleverSomething NewGraduatesGraduate StudentsFourier Author:Paul Halmos
“America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.” AmericaUsedSocialJusticeCompanyStudentsMajorsConcernConcernedClaimsSocial JusticeFilledUnionsUniversityDrivingIgnorantFacultyCompetitorsFree MarketCampusTreasuryForumsNikeDupes Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it if it did. Such is the nihilistic atmosphere in major universities around the world.” IfsWorldStudentsMajorsClaimsUniversityAround The WorldAtmosphereProfessorsQuests Author:Dave Hunt
“There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.” WritingTurnsTeachStudyToo MuchTeachingFashionStudentsTheoryEnlightenmentClaimsVictimGenderBelieverJournalistExpertsAddressesGapsConformityAcademicTopicsConsensusIdeologicalTextbooksLegislatorsExcludedMisinformationTrue BelieverSophistryWomen's Health Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.” EnoughWholeScienceEducationStudyToo MuchOne ThingStudentsLimitsClaimsMedicineMedicalWhole LifeExpertsBranchesChemistryDeclineIncapableLecturesAcademyComprehensionSurveysPrudentHastyBotany Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe