The first failure is to believe the State can educate children. The State can only provide resources for the education of children. A comfortable environment, books with information and a person to help guide students with the information contained in those books.
Because as a society we confuse what the State can and cannot do, we do not hold the State responsible for what it can do (provide a safe environment for example) and try to allow it to do something it cannot do. Thus, we believe spending more money to educate children is a good investment except the investment doesn’t go to what the State can do and instead goes to what the State cannot do. We get more and more administrators, teachers aids and other things targeted at educating the students.
Little Jonny needs a teachers aid to following him around all day in the hopes he will stop being a pain in the ass and somehow will become a student. The State cannot educate little Jonny. What the State can do is remove little Jonny from the environment so that other children that are working to educate themselves have an environment that is conducive to that purpose.
We don’t know what to do with all the little Jonnies we have. We simply must get them educated even if that is not possible because there are no other solutions.
One hundred years ago education was a privilege. Little Jonny wasn’t a problem for the education system. Since he didn’t want to be educated and education was a privilege, he went straight to work. Working from age 13 to age 18 was much better for the little Jonnies and for all those that wanted to educate themselves. The school of hard knocks provided the environment little Jonny needed to get an education and the environment for those wanting an education was much better.
The school of hard knocks was closed. For some reason having a 16 year old work is bad. Child labor and all.
Why is this a conservative issue?
Were you hoping we could exclude the smartest people in the world from participation? Not just participation in this event, but in modern life.
Au contraire – that is precisely what exercises me.
As to why once-awesome MIT thinks it is OK to discriminate against males and has a math competition for girls only – presumably this is part of the feminization of our declining society. Probably future Chinese historians will have conferences & debates about whether that feminization was the cause of the decline & fall of the West or whether it was a symptom of a deeper problem of loss of civilizational confidence.
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Does this imply that college-“educated” white women harbor an awful suspicion that the great advances they personally have made in academia, government, media, military, business are probably undeserved? That on a level playing field, most of them would still be entering the Boardroom only to deliver the coffee?
This analysis and the polling cited above fail to make the distinction between married and single white women. That is a more significant divide than college/no-college, though they are somewhat correlated for obvious reasons. Some of you may recall the kerfuffle over VP Vance’s comments in 2021 but resurfaced during the 2024 campaign about single krazy kat ladies: specifically, unmarried and childless women, a majority of whom happen to be white but that’s incidental — as Ed Dutton and Michael Woodley refer to them: spiteful mutants. Or maybe it’s just toxoplasmosis.
One might feel a little sympathy for the woman who caused all those deaths. She had clearly been under-trained and over-promoted because of her gender – and put into a situation where she was a danger to everyone.
On the other hand, that over-promoted woman ignored the advice of her more experienced but lower-ranking co-pilot. She was the officer! She worked at the White House, dammit! I am woman, hear me roar!
While that woman was immediately responsible for all those deaths, what about the senior officers who promoted her and put her into a situation for which she was not prepared, either by experience or temperament? Individual officers who knew better pushed her up the ladder prematurely in order to tick a box and advance their own careers. Those officers who failed in their jobs should be liable for military, criminal, and civil penalties. Where is a lawyer when we need one?
The treatment of the story by the NYT is as important as the specific case of a diversity hire who caused many deaths. That’s because the obfuscation of the real cause of this accident enables repetition of the mistake: the hiring and over-promotion of underqualified individuals who will tend to overestimate their abilities, thereby resulting in more accidents.
The Ugandan-born Mamdani got hammered by critics after the bombshell revelation that Mamdani listed that he was both “Asian” and “Black/African American” when applying to Columbia University, where his father Mahmood Mamdani is a professor.
