Friday, May 23, 2008
Important reading
Via Steve Sailer as usual, here is one of the best articles of the year. Written by a college "remedial English" instructor, describing the plight of his students and the idiocy of America's fixation on egalitarianism. His experience closely resembles my own experience with adult students at DeVry, but I wasn't able to write about it nearly as well.
Modern Americans have been totally Leninized on this point. We simply cannot bring ourselves to allow that people are different, that some people are better roofers than others, some are better writers than others. Everyone must get a college degree, preferably a Harvard degree.
We weren't always so stupid. Here is an equally thoughtful piece of writing on the same subject from 1936, in a slightly different medium. ¶ 12:27 PM
Modern Americans have been totally Leninized on this point. We simply cannot bring ourselves to allow that people are different, that some people are better roofers than others, some are better writers than others. Everyone must get a college degree, preferably a Harvard degree.
We weren't always so stupid. Here is an equally thoughtful piece of writing on the same subject from 1936, in a slightly different medium. ¶ 12:27 PM
