Education activist & author Victoria Young discusses America’s new anti-intellectualism movement.
Author, retired veterinarian, & education activist Victoria Young discusses the new American anti-intellectualism among other issues.
Dr. Young wrote the article titled “Anti-intellectualism in Today’s America!“ that immediately sucked me in. Deep into her article, I caught the following snippet.
“We don’t educate people anymore. We train them to get jobs,” said Professor Catherine Liu in discussing the changing mission of universities.
And that said it all. We are creating robots with no ability of critical thinking. The bastions of our economy want the obedient subject that is there to…
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