A contributor on Quora.com (Ted Kord) says, as part of his comments on the idea of students being brainwashed by leftist ideology: Now I’...

Extract from an article by Gene Epstein on City Journal : In The Case Against Education , a persuasive indictment of his own industry, Geor...

Good parents In order to be a socially approved parent it is necessary not to ‘push’ your child. There is a social myth to the effect that ...

Extract from chapter ‘Dozing in the staff room’, in: It’s your time you’re wasting: A teacher’s tales of classroom hell , by Frank Chalk (...

There is a sense in which the authoritarian figures of a socialist society are far more authoritarian than those of a capitalist one. To ill...

Below is a post by my colleague Christine Fulcher, giving some of her views on education. The headmaster of my primary school made great p...

From Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man : The difference between strict hereditarians and their opponents is not, as some caricature...

Frederick William I (1688 - 1740) Compulsory education involves the transfer of the power to make decisions about a child’s education fr...

Winston Churchill c. 1898 How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. [...] I counted the...

St Ignatius of Loyola (1491 - 1556) The Ursuline convent school to which I went had a school motto, Age Quod Agis (Do What You Do). We...

Writing about Christine Fulcher has reminded me of how difficult it is, and always has been, to say anything about our position. In Christ...

Recently we have been making contact with various undergraduates. The impression most of them give is that they are determined to make thing...

The belief system associated with the egalitarian ideology has been increasing in influence for a long time, and is now overwhelmingly domi...

I reproduce below an account by one of my associates of an experience they had with the headmaster of their primary school. The account illu...

Articles in the media commenting on education tend not to make clear the distinction between correlation and causation. For example, a re...

Recent statements by Michael Gove (the Education Secretary) and Andrew Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University), among others, seem t...

Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, appears to be paying some attention to the possibility of heredity as a factor in intelligence. He h...

[The Department of Education and Science] was a department with an entrenched culture and a settled agenda of its own which it pursued with ...

It is a feature of modern society that it is impossible to express a need. If society has ruined your education and thrown you out without a...

It is a feature of the downfall of Western civilisation that above-average ability is discriminated against; this is expressed in the form o...