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gifted. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

special educational provision. Among them are the blind and the partially seeing, the deaf and the hard of hearing, the speech-defective, the crippled, the delicate, the epileptic, the mentally deficient, the socially maladjusted, and the extraordinarily

Possibly I exaggerate; but otherwise it is hard to understand how an official of the Office of Education could have written this insensitive passage:
A considerable number of children, estimated at about four million, deviate sufficiently from mental, physical, and behavioral norms to require

of resort, its verdict is vastly more favorable to the views of those who believe in the possibility of mental discipline than it was represented to be by the educational prophets of life adjustment. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.

Presumably, the ideal of a liberal education is still better vindicated by the educational experience of the human race than by experimental psychology; but in so far as such scientific inquiry is taken as a court

transfer can be achieved by appropriate learning, even to the degree that learning properly under optimum conditions leads one to ‘learn how to learn.’

Today, experimental psychology offers them no comfort. As Jerome Bruner summarizes it in his remarkable little book, The Process of Education: "Virtually all of the evidence of the last two decades on the nature of learning and transfer has indicated that ... it is indeed a fact that massive general

Mounting public anger in China as writers of gay erotic fiction face prosecution China’s censorship campaign turns to danmei, an online genre of same-sex love stories between men

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China’s soft power paradox: Censorship vs cultural exports The export of Chinese pop fiction, including Boys’ Love (BL) fiction, has found ready markets in Southeast Asia such as Thailand. But some undesirable genres pose a dilemma for China’s soft power.

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Why is China banning Boys' Love (BL) and why should we care? - SOAS China Institute Chi Zhang and Ming Zhang argue that China's banning of 'BL' works will have no positive consequences on women's willingness to have children.

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this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

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the foundation for learning more Latin, Greek, or mathematics, but, far more important, to train the powers of the mind so that they would be more adequate for whatever task they might confront. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

constant mental discipline, they were gradually so strengthened. It was also generally believed that certain subjects had an established superiority as agents of mental discipline-above all, Latin, Greek, and mathematics. The purpose of developing competence in these subjects was not merely to lay

In this psychology, the mind was believed to be a substantive entity composed of a number of parts or "faculties" such as rea-son, imagination, memory, and the like. It was assumed that these faculties, like physical faculties, could be strengthened by exercise; and in a liberal education, through

Behind this remarkable dogmatism there lies an interesting chapter in the history of ideas. The older ideal of a classical liberal education, as expressed in nineteenth-century America and elsewhere, had been based upon two assumptions. The first was the so-called faculty psychology.

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"disciplinary" subjects. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

one must believe, not of educating anyone, but simply of acting as hurdles that would trip up weaker pupils before they got to college.) This outmoded technique required four wasteful and expensive years of futile study in supposedly

Quite aside from the vested interests of teachers of these subjects, the main reason, he thought, was that the higher institutions had needed some device for selecting the abler pupils and eliminating the others. (The teaching of such subjects as languages and algebra had the function,

figures in which it is ex-pressed. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.

applications and eager to invoke the authority of science on behalf of their various crusades. The American mind seems extremely vulnerable to the belief that any alleged knowledge which can be expressed in figures is in fact as final and exact as the

The dificulty was that what should have been simply a continuous inquiry had a way, in the fervent atmosphere of professional education, of being exalted into a faith-not so much by those who were actually doing research as by those who were hungry to find its practical

(Life-adjustment educators would do anything in the name of science except encourage children to study it.) -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

Okay. This made me laugh.

The consequence is that "man remains the center of religion and God is his aid rather than his judge and redeemer."
-Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

No reason at all that this particular passage jumped out at me.

H. Richard Niebuhr has remarked, there is a strain in modern American theology which "tends to define religion in terms of adjustment to divine reality for the sake of gaining power rather than in terms of revelation which subjects the recipient to the criticism of that which is revealed."

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usually quite simple, and readily accessible. Wit is humor intellectualized; it is sharper; it has associations with style and sophistication, overtones of aristocracy.
-Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter