{"id":41377,"date":"2023-08-13T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41377"},"modified":"2023-08-14T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:06:08","slug":"qotd-modern-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/13\/qotd-modern-education\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Modern education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Our schools have fulfilled the liberal educators&#8217; every dream, abandoning educational achievement as their goal and systematically replacing it with nurturing self-esteem &mdash; or at least self-conceit &mdash; leaving their pupils unaware of their own disastrous ignorance, unable even to read properly, and without a counterweight to their chaotic home environments. <\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dalrymple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/a-murderesss-tale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A Murderess&#8217;s Tale&#8221;, <em>City Journal<\/em><\/a>, 2005-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update 14 Aug<\/strong>: <em>City Journal<\/em> has changed their site structure since that article was posted, so I&#8217;ve updated the URL to the new location. H\/T to somercet1 who called my attention to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our schools have fulfilled the liberal educators&#8217; every dream, abandoning educational achievement as their goal and systematically replacing it with nurturing self-esteem &mdash; or at least self-conceit &mdash; leaving their pupils unaware of their own disastrous ignorance, unable even to read properly, and without a counterweight to their chaotic home environments. Theodore Dalrymple, &#8220;A Murderess&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,41],"tags":[374,1020,1289],"class_list":["post-41377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-progressives","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aLn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84256,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41377\/revisions\/84256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}