Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 30, Alex rated it liked it. Not exactly my path of expertise or study, but may prove useful to future study of the academic apparatus.
View 1 comment. Good book. Controversial thinking. There is one mind-spinning section where the author seems to be justifying racism on the basis of genetics, but it really is an argument that scientific study should not have to confirm to idealism or politics. I would have rated it higher if there were footnotes, endnotes, and an index. Eric Miller rated it did not like it Dec 04, Robin Van den Broecke rated it liked it Jun 10, Gerry rated it it was amazing Feb 08, TR rated it it was ok Aug 20, Joseph rated it it was amazing Sep 21, Aki rated it really liked it Mar 17, Derek Pillion rated it it was amazing Jun 05, Daniel Hawkins rated it it was amazing Jun 25, Konrad rated it really liked it Aug 01, Rey rated it liked it Jun 10, Joshua O'Brien rated it liked it Apr 12, Krzysiek Chris rated it did not like it Dec 09, Dukeofprunes rated it liked it Jan 11, KnoxnGnome rated it it was amazing Feb 15, ARR rated it it was amazing Jan 11, Damian rated it really liked it Sep 30, Donald Scott rated it really liked it Aug 02, Brent Moore rated it it was amazing May 05, John rated it it was amazing Feb 05, Jon Kostyniuk rated it liked it Oct 05, Robert Whitaker rated it liked it Jan 13, Be the first to write a review.
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Joe Sobran says in the foreword: "A former professor himself, Bob Whitaker believes that formal education has become dangerous, and often fatal, to common sense. This is nothing new, but Americans believe so deeply in formal education that they routinely sacrifice their children's youth to it, often paying staggering amounts of money to shield them from the real world These "social" sciences are often directly contradicted by the hard sciences.
They are built on ideas and theories that are not only unproven, but demonstrably and obviously false. Yet they are aggressively promoted by the academy, followed by the media and the government, and anyone who openly denies them can forget about a career in these institutions. Even real scientists are forced to bow to the idols of "social" science Americans pay trillions of dollars, in both taxes and private tuition, to have their children indoctrinated in a false and destructive ideology, which serves as the basis for a series of disastrous public policies.
Robert W. Whitaker has "been there and done that" in the world of politics. His unique perspective is insightful and vital. You may not agree with everything he says, but he will make you think. He has been a college professor, international aviation negotiator, Capitol Hill senior staffer, Reagan Administration appointee, and writer for the Voice of America.
Bob now lives in Columbia, SC. Its tone, thesis, and style are defiantly anti-academic. Many would call it anti-in-tellectual — and so it is, if the life of the mind is equated with the people we call intellectuals. A former professor himself, Bob Whitaker believes that formal education has become dangerous, and often fatal, to common sense.
Bob reminds us that in the Middle Ages, the advance of science was retarded not by the ignorant, but by the learned. All educated people "knew" that heavy bodies fell faster than light ones, and that men had more teeth than women. The great Aristotle had said so.
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