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  • Prof: Today’s Students and Professors ‘Know Hardly Anything about Anything at All’

    Prof: Today’s Students and Professors ‘Know Hardly Anything about Anything at All’44

    Six months ago we shared a frightening observation from Patrick Deneen, a political science professor at Notre Dame who has also taught at Princeton and Georgetown. He described his students as “know-nothings… devoid of any substantial knowledge.” More recently, a respected author and English professor at Providence College in Rhode Island has echoed Deneen’s concerns.

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  • Prof: Most Students Don’t Know Thomas Jefferson was President

    Prof: Most Students Don’t Know Thomas Jefferson was President0

    As Intellectual Takeout recently noted, Americans are embracing bad government because they don’t know history. If you don’t believe it, just ask Professor Duke Pesta. According to The College Fix, Professor Pesta has long been concerned about the decline of general knowledge in America’s student body, and the informal surveys he conducts suggest there is

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  • Prof: Light Skin ‘a Handicap for Black Athletes’

    Prof: Light Skin ‘a Handicap for Black Athletes’0

    During an interview this spring, Golden State Warriors Draymond Green discussed why players around the league have long doubted or dismissed the talents of his superstar teammate, Stephen Curry. But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft”

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  • Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything

    Prof: Kids are Not Learning Anything0

    Ask British professor Dennis Hayes how government-run schools are doing and he would say they’re in bad shape. As he recently explained to The Independent, “the kids are basically not learning anything,” largely because the schools “confuse information with knowledge.” But Hayes isn’t simply bashing the schools without offering solutions. According to him, reintroducing subjects

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  • Prof: 3 Reasons Lack of Manners is Killing the University

    Prof: 3 Reasons Lack of Manners is Killing the University0

    Over the weekend, University of North Carolina professor Molly Worthen penned an article for The New York Times intriguingly titled, “U Can’t Talk to Ur Professor Like This.” As the article infers, the popular concept of parents allowing children to be their “friends” has hit the ivy halls, and many students are bringing familiarity into

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  • Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says

    Prof Who Said She’s Happy Barbara Bush Is Dead Didn’t Violate University Policies, Cal State Says0

    California State University, Fresno closed its investigation Tuesday into the professor who called former first lady Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” and said she is “happy the witch is dead.” Fresno State President Joseph I. Castro asserted that English professor Randa Jarrar did not violate any of the school’s policies with her remarks, reported the Foundation for Individual Rights in

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