American - | November 11, 1954 -
To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.
Charlie Sykes
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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
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The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Across the country, universities that had abandoned in loco parentis in the 1960s because it was too oppressive and intrusive have replaced it with in loco Big Brother programs of political and cultural re-education.
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I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.
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In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies.
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We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.
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A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.
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I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.
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I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers.
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One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held conservative principles, and to embrace Donald Trump.
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