We need experts to rule society, they said. No, we didn't. They made Covid, inflation, crime, trans, etc. worse. Facing a backlash, elites censored & persecuted ordinary people. Now, they're panicking because a populist counter-elite is, finally, putting an end to their grift.
there is far too much focus here & elsewhere on equal/fair distribution of the education that is available, when the root of the problem is very clearly that the quality of the education that is available is highly variable.
if every student at every accredited university were guaranteed to graduate with a real competency, it would not matter so much which university each particular student went to. in other words, this great battle over university seats would not matter so gosh darn much.
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A few years back I wrote this: grahamcunningham.substa…
"The academy’s pied-piper hold on the young minds of the future ‘opinion-forming’ elite – including crucially the teaching profession - has proceeded unchecked, such that its seductive virtue-signalling mentality has now taken hold in most graduate-entry professional walks of life.....If a re-invigorated GOP ever did really get its act together (and the votes to back it), what kind of fight-back could they mount?
It would need to be an unash…
Great how to. Glad you are advising the DoE on this. Endowments should be seized to help pay off student loans. They helped create it and perhaps some administrator salaries should be clawed back. University endowments manage billions in assets, running like a hedge fund with a school attached to it. Many of them have ESG/DEI mandates for their portfolios, which should also be ended.
Brown just hired a white man as its new head of DEI and bragged about ways it will work around the laws to maximize diversity in admissions: yuribezmenov.substack.c…