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“(Fourth graders) are now learning that the United States is founded on racism, that racism is the pervasive undercurrent in American governance, law enforcement, social interaction, employment, literature, arts, entertainment, real estate, and education… What this means is that the school is teaching kids how to interpret history before they learn the history they are meant to interpret. They’re telling kids what opinions to have before they’re giving the facts about which that opinion should be formed. Educators are making sure that these fourth graders look at history through the lens of critical race theory before they even know what that history is.” – Libby Emmons, “The NYC school system is teaching my ten-year-old son that he’s racist” – The Post Millennial, June 15th, 2020.

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“Professors across the country are taking to social media to express their concern over being forced to deliver their course lectures online amid the coronavirus outbreak, sharing with each other tips on how to limit the number of people who are able to see what they’re teaching students… Texas Christian University Associate Professor of Political Science Emily Farris tweeted Thursday, ‘if you are recording a lecture on anything controversial, be prepared for right wing sites to ask students to share it’.” – Jon Street, “Professors worried students will share lectures with ‘right wing sites’.” – Campus Reform, March 19th, 2020.

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“Male academics and students were concerned that the presence of female students, let alone staff, would ‘alter the character of the teaching’ and lead to ‘feminine government’ of universities [Discussed in Education, by Carol Dyhouse, in Women in Twentieth Century Britain, 2014.] In other words, the ‘masculine’ dimension to academia – rigorously, unemotionally and coldly examining facts and arguments – would be wrecked by the increasing presence of emotional and over-empathetic girls. As females increasingly take over Western universities, now constituting the majority of students in the USA [Why do women outnumber men in college?, NBER working paper no. 12139, January 2007 ], it is becoming clear that these skeptics were right.” – Lance Welton, “Are women destroying academia? Probably” – The Unz Review, November 2nd, 2019. (You can read this important article here – maybe…)

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“They insist that more and more dropouts enter ‘higher education’ in order to ‘earn more money.’ But they fail to understand that this simply results in the dumbing down of higher education, the bachelor’s degree having far less value as employers lose faith… Already, employers are increasingly setting up their own systems of assessment, sometimes giving the job to a non-graduate. They are bypassing degrees and reverting to de facto apprenticeships, where they establish their own entry requirements and then train you on the job. Surveys have found that employers regard young college graduates as ‘deficient in such key workplace skills as written and oral communication, critical thinking and analytical reasoning’ – the very things that college was supposed to teach them.” – Lance Welton, “College bubble bursting – left hardest hit. Too bad” – Unz Review, October 6th, 2019. (An excellent expose, you can read it here.)

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“Mary Reid, assistant professor at University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, worries math tests for all new teachers could lead to fewer visible minorities entering the profession… The purpose of schooling is to include visible minorities. A math test uncomfortably approximates an intelligence test. These make the obvious…well, obvious.” – Fred Reed, “Dispatches from the race war” – The Unz Review, August 31st, 2019.

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“The bright minds at the TDSB who put together the new dress code don’t say whether such sleepwear can be a nightgown, drawstring pants, straight pajamas or a Victoria Secret-style Teddy… I guess that’s open to interpretation, along with the myriad of tops and bottoms that will soon be perfectly acceptable to wear in class: Tops that are backless, bare the midriff and have plunging necklines that expose cleavage, as long as they cover ‘nipples’… This is all contained in the new dress code along with the permission to wear bottoms that expose legs, thighs and hips as long as ‘groin and buttocks’ are covered.” – Sue-Ann Levy, “The nearly naked truth about TDSB’s new dress code policy” – Toronto Sun, June 7th, 2019.

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“The great surprise is that WASPs, the legendary descendants of the Founding Fathers, have lost their privilege, or even their fair chance to success. Unz proves that a smart Christian American boy of English or German parentage has ten times less chance to get into these crème-de-la-crème universities than an average Jewish boy. This very unfair way of forming tomorrow’s elites has been made possible by the sheer nepotistic networking of the universities’ admission offices. Clannishness, the Jews were (justifiably) accused of… Provided that these Ivy League colleges are the only sure-fire way into American elites, into best jobs and into good and important positions, this biased enrolment guarantees the Jews their position of the top dog well into next generation.” – Israel Shamir, “Unz goes nuclear” – The Unz Review, Dec. 6th, 2018.

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“There is an inherent viciousness of ideological discourse that is rampant in today’s academic climate of dogma-driven scholarship, where university professors yield little regard for differing opinions when it comes to a whole host of hot-button issues ranging from religion to gender politics to climate change… The assumption that those who disagree with you are bad people, the willful ignorance of uncomfortable facts, and the urge to make up for weak argument by shouting more loudly – seem to be core values of many students graduating with degrees in social sciences today.” – Kieran Moloney, “Stifling debate – Canadian universities in need of dire reform” – Toronto Sun, Sept. 8th, 2018.

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“How will campus free speech policies that aim to promote ‘open debate’ and ‘the exchange of ideas’ address overreaching Gendered Violence policies and power-hungry activists that manipulate the internal complaints system? At this point, they can’t. While the various free speech policies that will come into effect in Ontario on January 1, 2019 may encourage some students to speak their minds in class more often and offer their honest opinions, that doesn’t mean they won’t be notified of a formal complaint against them the next week.” – Lindsay Shepherd, “Why we should be skeptical of government-mandated campus free speech policies” – The Post Millennial, August 31st, 2018. This is an excellent article, read it here.)

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