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Tag Archives: education
Childhood’s End
In a comment yesterday, musing on the fact that Deborah Arnott has two children, DP wondered: Maybe she allows herself time off from persecuting smokers in her day job to being motherly and kindly after work and on her days … Continue reading
New Voices
I seem to keep coming across new voices these days. People I’d never heard of before, and didn’t know they even existed until I somehow stumbled across them on the internet. And they’re all people who are talking. And I … Continue reading
Do We Need Universities?
Something I noticed yesterday: Students at a leading London college say the majority of philosophers studied there should be from Africa and Asia, and white thinkers should only be examined “from a critical standpoint” or in a “colonial context”. Student … Continue reading
Institutional Failure
A remark in an angry essay about climate alarmism on Bishop Hill set me thinking: “This isn’t just individual failure, it’s institutional.” And what are the institutions in question? They’re universities mostly. So perhaps the institutional failure is to be … Continue reading
Brainwashing In Schools
Rather scary reading in Andrew Montford (of Bishop Hill) and John Shade’s Climate Control: Brainwashing in schools: The impetus to put the environment and sustainable development at the centre of the education agenda can be traced back to the early 1970s. … Continue reading
