
Teachers unions are your enemy
Not all teachers – for there are many good and decent ones – but the profession, and certainly its upper echelon, is fast becoming a societal poison: The president of …
Read MoreNot all teachers – for there are many good and decent ones – but the profession, and certainly its upper echelon, is fast becoming a societal poison: The president of …
Read MoreThe story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for …
Read MoreThe perennial “to Doctor or not to Doctor” debate about credentials and titles is with us again, this time thanks to a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed arguing that the incoming …
Read MoreOnce upon a time, centre-left wing parties were the parties of working class and the poor, while centre-right parties were the parties of the wealthy, middle class and the educated. …
Read MoreAs CNN’s Christiane Amanpour again compares Trump to Hitler on the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, a new a piece of research is being touted by major media outlets: “US Republicans …
Read MoreThere is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
Read MoreThe wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
Read MoreQuestion asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …
Read MoreWhat are they teaching you at TAFE these days? A Melbourne TAFE student says she was shocked to see a “sickening” quote from a prominent anti-Islam activist suggesting up to …
Read MoreLast year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author of “Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto”) wrote an opinion piece …
Read MoreOver a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
Read MoreAnother day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
Read MoreThat we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of the intellectual climate throughout the Western academia: An international group …
Read MoreAs an Indiana judge said at the height of the 1870s Women’s Crusade forcing saloons to close through sit-ins and pray-ins, “Mob law enforced by women is no better than …
Read MoreA lot apparently, according to an anthropologist: Heavy metal fans have evolved to communicate with each other like remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a study by anthropologists has found. …
Read MoreDepression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
Read MoreJudging by the test results, the learning outcomes in Australian schools are at best stagnating in absolute terms and declining relatively to other OECD countries. This is a problem for …
Read MoreThe new slogan for The Daily Chrenk should henceforth be “TDC – read it all here two days before News.com.au catches onto it”. I wasn’t going to blog about this …
Read MoreI like free speech and free market because they allow us to see who the idiots are and to spend our money elsewhere. Wisconsin parents – avoid Ripon College for …
Read MoreIn space no one can hear you scream, but in Ohio school administrators can certainly hear parents scream about their children being given this exercise: Administrators with Cuyahoga Falls Schools …
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