Idiot’s Delight
by Robert PondiscioSeptember 26th, 2010
Think anti-intellectualism in American education not a problem? Submitted for your disapproval: “There is nothing like knowing it all to kill the imagination,” write Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon:
“When we become expert, or think we have, we get the benefits of intellectual shortcuts and far greater processing efficiency-but we suffer the cost of closed-mindedness. Having seen it all, we stop looking. Having been there, we stop going. Having done that, we stop doing.”
Seriously? What possible basis in fact could there be for this broad, blanket
A Question for the President
As part of its Education Nation edu-pep rally, President Obama will be doing a sit down Monday morning with NBC’s Matt Lauer. The network has posted a web page to allow the vast unwashed to ask the President a education question. Here’s mine: Dear Mr. President, Please rank from greatest to least, the importance of each of the [...]