The role of a parent is to protect his child from harm, teach him how to think and make good choices, identify reality, help him understand long-range consequences, and help him to understand that his feelings are not superior to reason.
Education
Sex and the Schools, or, An Essay You Don’t Want to Read
Sex in the schools—by which I mean the sexualization of children on issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity—is America’s twenty-first-century kulturkampf.
Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program
Higher education in the US is bloated and dysfunctional because federal meddling turned it into a mass entitlement. Turn off the federal spigot and it will rapidly improve.
Biden Hints He’s Planning to “Cancel” Student Debt. Why Student Debt Holders Should Be Against the Move
The problem is, “forgiving” debt doesn’t make it go away, it just shifts the burden. These “loans” effectively become grants, and the taxpayers are left footing the bill. This is a classic example of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
Reagan’s Goal to End the Department of Education Is Finally Gaining Momentum
“By eliminating the Department of Education…we cannot only reduce the budget but ensure that local needs and preferences, rather than the wishes of Washington, determine the education of our children.” – Ronald Reagan
Grooming Our Children: We Need to Fight Back
The act of interacting with a child with the objective of sexual abuse is called grooming.
Critical Race Theory “in” Education: What It Is, Why It’s Wrong, How to Fight It
Critical Race Theory is a Marxist collectivist view of race and justice. It is called “Marxist” because it shares the same basic philosophical views as Marxism except that class is replaced with race.
Montessori Teacher Fights ‘Social Justice’
Some Montessori organizations are replacing Montessori critical thinking skills with indoctrination into Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda. A Montessori teacher fights back.
College Student Loan Debt Problem: Senator Warren’s “Fix” Will Make Things Worse
Federal college subsidies have increased the cost of higher education, lowered its standards, created a labor market glut of graduates expecting “good” jobs because they’ve been to college, and led to a horde of people who can barely repay their college debt.
Black Education Tragedy Is New
As early as 1899, students of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a black public school in Washington, D.C., scored higher on citywide tests than any of the city’s white schools. From its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of its graduates went off to college.
Myth of “Adjunctification” and Disappearing Tenure in Higher Education
Tenure is at best a mixed bag – sometimes it protects the already-employed, but at other times it means that candidates with unpopular views are never offered employment or promotion in the first place.
Public School Pandemonium Teaches a Valuable Lesson
When governments abrogate parents’ right to choose, they instigate conflict between parents and teachers.
Sorry, Washington Post, But Parents Do Have Every Right to Shape Their Kids’ Curriculum
Parents are increasingly demanding freedom of choice in education.
“Social Justice” Movement Contaminates Montessori Education with Marxist Ideology
Instead of workshops on social justice topics, Montessori organizations should feature seminars on the value and role of the individual in eliminating racism, and should glorify and celebrate the fact that the Montessori Method is based on individualism.
A Message to Graduating Students
If you want to lead a successful life, our most urgent advice to you is to reject your professors’ assaults on reason and individualism.
Successful Without College
“Forgive student loans” really means workers must pay for privileged students who don’t.
What in the World Are You Teaching Kids?
Imbue your child not with the dangers of the world, but with the factful progress of the world.
Woke Colleges
Critics claim the tests are culturally biased and say that’s why Blacks and Latinos don’t score as well. But that doesn’t explain why Asians do so well. In fact, Asians get the best SAT scores.
Higher Education Corruption: The Dangers of a College Education
Without a separation of school and state, the madness will continue.
The Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the 19th Century
Government Education Increased Bureaucracy and Reduced Liberty
How Big Government Broke Higher Education: The Student Loan Bubble, Explained
All evidence points to government-subsidization as the real culprit behind rising tuition costs.
When Public School Teachers Unions Win, Students, Parents, and Taxpayers Lose
It’s revealing that government-run schools fight to stay closed, while most businesses — private schools, restaurants, hair salons, gyms, etc., fight to be allowed to open.
“Freeloader U”: On Tax Exempt, Government Subsidized American Colleges
Everyone else pays more because colleges get tax breaks, government grants, and government loans.
Should Blacks Support The Destruction of Charter Schools?
Why do black people, as a political group, accept the attack on charter schools given that charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.
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