Now if you want to see how it all got started generally, read Less than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell. If you want to see how it all got started specifically with respect to American education and how it keeps propagating itself through time from the days of Wundt, see Mitchell’s second book, From the Graves of Academe (and the Under…
Now if you want to see how it all got started generally, read Less than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell. If you want to see how it all got started specifically with respect to American education and how it keeps propagating itself through time from the days of Wundt, see Mitchell’s second book, From the Graves of Academe (and the Underground Grammarian newsletter). Mitchell destroyed those assholes over 35 years ago. They are available in their entirety free of charge online at www.sourcetext.com. Everything he says I saw firsthand a decade earlier in Illinois, New York City, and Kentucky. What he says is even more true now.
My second undergraduate program was in education. The school I graduated from was ranked in first place by NCATE (the National Council for Teacher Education) of all schools public and private in the 37 states ranked by NCATE. It held that distinction for years.
Shortly after I started, I thought, “If this school is number one, what’s coming out of the rest?” I soon had the opportunity to see exactly what in a number of states.
And this was at least 5 years before I read Less than Words Can Say and at least a couple more before I found From the Graves of Academe. The first was excellent. When I read his second book my reaction was, seen it; yep, that one, too. It didn’t make any difference if they were all Anglo schools or Hispanic bilingual schools (later both big city mostly black public and most charter schools). The teachers and administrators were, with rare exception, cast from the same mold. They were, almost uniformly, ideologues and idiots, a fact borne out by the scores of education majors in the SAT and the GRE, at or near the bottom of all college majors. Later I would look up the scores by major on the LSAT (for law school), the GMAT (for business school), and the MCAT (for medical school). Exactly the same distribution. Engineers (especially mechanical) at the top; education at or near the bottom.
But The Graves of Academe is not dreary reading because Mitchell is very entertaining in a sarcastic way.
I was accustomed to do that same look-up of SAT scores, annually, And saw how sad were the scores of those in teachers' colleges (now, of course, puffing themselves up as "universities") Further, as a child, whose elementary school was a state teachers' college training school, I experienced some of this low level of wit. When a fourth or sixth grader can recognize inadequacy, in an adult, that's bad. Later, as a high school senior, I observed that of the kids in the college track, the lowest were heading to the local state teachers' college. Here you may insert the name "Robin diAngelo".
Now if you want to see how it all got started generally, read Less than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell. If you want to see how it all got started specifically with respect to American education and how it keeps propagating itself through time from the days of Wundt, see Mitchell’s second book, From the Graves of Academe (and the Underground Grammarian newsletter). Mitchell destroyed those assholes over 35 years ago. They are available in their entirety free of charge online at www.sourcetext.com. Everything he says I saw firsthand a decade earlier in Illinois, New York City, and Kentucky. What he says is even more true now.
My second undergraduate program was in education. The school I graduated from was ranked in first place by NCATE (the National Council for Teacher Education) of all schools public and private in the 37 states ranked by NCATE. It held that distinction for years.
Shortly after I started, I thought, “If this school is number one, what’s coming out of the rest?” I soon had the opportunity to see exactly what in a number of states.
And this was at least 5 years before I read Less than Words Can Say and at least a couple more before I found From the Graves of Academe. The first was excellent. When I read his second book my reaction was, seen it; yep, that one, too. It didn’t make any difference if they were all Anglo schools or Hispanic bilingual schools (later both big city mostly black public and most charter schools). The teachers and administrators were, with rare exception, cast from the same mold. They were, almost uniformly, ideologues and idiots, a fact borne out by the scores of education majors in the SAT and the GRE, at or near the bottom of all college majors. Later I would look up the scores by major on the LSAT (for law school), the GMAT (for business school), and the MCAT (for medical school). Exactly the same distribution. Engineers (especially mechanical) at the top; education at or near the bottom.
But The Graves of Academe is not dreary reading because Mitchell is very entertaining in a sarcastic way.
I was accustomed to do that same look-up of SAT scores, annually, And saw how sad were the scores of those in teachers' colleges (now, of course, puffing themselves up as "universities") Further, as a child, whose elementary school was a state teachers' college training school, I experienced some of this low level of wit. When a fourth or sixth grader can recognize inadequacy, in an adult, that's bad. Later, as a high school senior, I observed that of the kids in the college track, the lowest were heading to the local state teachers' college. Here you may insert the name "Robin diAngelo".