Education

The University of Illinois, Urbana campus, where Dr. Oliver obtained his doctorate and was a professor until his retirement in the late 1970s. by Revilo P. Oliver
University of Illinois (1949) CURRENT ARTICLES on the problems of Latin teaching have had much to say about various qualities requisite…

by Revilo P. Oliver THE GRANDPARENTS or great-grandparents of most Americans watched in uncomprehending stupefaction while John Dewey and his gang of crypto-Communist racketeers took over the public schools and converted them into engines that manufactured the uneducated and uneducatable White…

by David Sims ON FOX News recently, one of their pet Negroes waxed eloquent about how Blacks do well in school when standards are raised instead of lowered. At about 1:13 in the video below, he says, “Take a look at Capital Prep. A charter school with locations in Harlem, the Bronx, Hartford (Connecticut),…

Kate Brown OPENLY bisexual Oregon Governor Kate Brown quietly signed a bill last month that removed the requirement for graduating high school children in the state to be proficient in reading, writing, and math, in an effort to aid “students of color.” Brown signed Senate Bill 744 on July 14, but did…

by Revilo P. Oliver I HAVE commented often enough in these pages on the putrefaction of what once were institutions of higher learning in the United States and Europe. I shall here quote two paragraphs from a publication of an organization called Accuracy in Academia, of which the mail address is 1275…

Note: Below is one of many intended posts of mine that got delayed over the past year-plus thanks to distraction over work, the stolen presidential election, the totalitarian Covid-lockdowns, the economic crash and the unprecedented Fed money-printing, etc. Our political climate today is so demoralizing…

by Karl Gunther WHEN SOMEONE says that something is “academic” they mean it is moot — it is irrelevant, it no longer matters. That’s because these heads-in-the-clouds ivory-tower types come up with theories that are either wildly divergent from reality, or that show an…

by Revilo P. Oliver ACCORDING TO a despatch from the United Press, published in the Portland Oregonian on 16 April and doubtless other newspapers, a jury in Atlanta awarded $2,500,000 to a young woman, Jan Kemp, formerly an instructress in the University of Georgia, who was fired from her untenured…

by Douglas Mercer ONE OF THE great ironies is that in the 1920s when Jews were discriminated against by the Ivy League schools, they cried out sharply in pain. It was another Shoah, they said; and the Shoah hadn’t even happened yet. Not that it ever did. But now Jews lead the charge to discriminate…

Nixon and Moynihan by Douglas Mercer IN 1970 Daniel Moynihan told Richard Nixon that there was no evidence whatsoever that the amount of money spent on education had any effect at all on the performance of students. No data has emerged in the past half century to refute this claim. And yet the education…