I spend a lot of time trying to solve one of the most interesting crime stories there is.
Why, despite vast sums of money and massive concern by the public, are our educators somehow able to achieve new depths of dumb?
Why?? Because they know what they want and they work at it!
I just put a piece on the web titled “Educators Best Understood as Ignorance Engineers.” It’s not easy these days coming up with an original phrase. But Ignorance Engineers actually seems to be new. And it exactly captures the essence of what I’m more and more confident in saying: these educators are not wayward little waifs lost in the big city; they are cold-hearted ideologues trying to achieve John Dewey’s collectivist dream.
The reason they get away with so much mischief is that people give them the benefit of the doubt: they’re trying; they’re confused; they mean well. Actually, they don’t.
(Please Google: “Educators Best Understood as Ignorance Engineers.“)