I have friends, family members, who continue to insist that Obama is a socialist. There seems to be absolutely nothing I can do or say that gets them onto another track of thinking (if calling anyone names —Obama, socialist, for example— can even be called thinking). There are just so many problems with this particular [...]
Archive for July 5, 2009
Aptocracy
July 5, 2009It’s true that much that we recognize as merit is not tested. (See the article by Walter Kirn in today’s NYTimes.) Schooling and testing right up to and on through the SATS is most of all a measure of one’s aptitude, one’s mental quickness, one’s readiness with and understanding of words and numbers, and in [...]
