Here is a link to his excellent piece. Opinion | How to Reboot Free Speech on Campus – The New York Times (nytimes.com) Here is part of the comment that I posted. No one could address the current problem better than did David Riesman, one of America’s most revered sociologists, when he wrote, in 1980, […]

To cut off your nose to spite your face isn’t partisan – unless you are so poorly educated that you don’t believe you are cutting off your nose. That’s where we are. There are large swaths of American society who don’t have the tools – usually provided by education – to decide for themselves. They […]

David Brooks is on to something https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/scandinavia-education.html, but we need to start with basics. I commented, Did you say we need to change how we “educate” everyone? I didn’t know we did. And that’s a problem. Here is Jefferson on why it’s a problem. “…Preach…a crusade against ignorance…improve the law for educating the common people. […]

I wrote: “…how radical some professors can be when they look at the external world and how conservative when they look inwardly at themselves…” (Clark Kerr, from the 2001 Preface to “The Uses of the University”) (Clark Kerr was a highly regarded sociologist and a Chancellor of the Univ. of Cal. system. He is the […]