Tag Archives: education
Anti-schooling Society
Anti-modern and errant pilgrim priest Ivan Illich writes in his galvanizing Deschooling Society that the agenda of modern education consists of the following: “The pupil is thereby ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with … Continue reading
Extreme Teaching
Million Dollar Extreme is a sketch comedy troupe that had a show, World Peace, on Adult Swim for, I think, two minutes. As with what now seems to be the rule, not the exception, someone somewhere took offense with member Sam … Continue reading
Every Semester
As I nervously prepare for another first day of teaching, I am reminded of Michel Houellebecq’s spiritually-exhausted, andropausal, soon-to-be-Muslim convert, Francois, in Submission. As a Huysmans’s scholar who cares only for his research (and online porn and TV dinners), he admits, … Continue reading
White Student Quota: It’s for the (Black) Children
In this gleefully subversive thought experiment, Steve Sailer proposes that it would be in the best interest of children from low socio-economic, err, family situations (read: non-East Asian/non-Jewish minorities), if schools maintained a quota for white students, and, as such, this should be … Continue reading
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