Word: pedagoguese
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But not so fast: any explicit instruction in the Ten Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any...
America's problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change...
How meaningful would the prayers be, anyway? Religious opponents of school prayer fear petitions that would be content-free. As Christian libertarian Doug Bandow puts it, "Formalistic rituals teach an empty spirituality devoid of meaning." Is there any reason to think the pedagogues who once gave kids George Washington and...
The farce of lectures: I have never learned any physics of any significance from a lecture. Yet, there is an insistence that professors be pedagogues who reveal the world and from whom knowledge flows. Even the best lecturers are useless when they merely perform lengthy derivations on the blackboard that...
The 19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect...