he Closing of the American Mind is a critique of the contemporary university and how Bloom sees it as failing its students. In it, Bloom criticizes the modern movements in philosophy and the humanities. Philosophy professors involved in ordinary language analysis or logical positivism disregard important "humanizing" ethical and political issues and fail to pique the interest of students.[1] Literature professors involved in deconstructionism promote irrationalism and skepticism of standards of truth and thereby dissolve the moral imperatives which are communicated through genuine philosophy and which elevate and broaden the intellects of those who engage with these imperatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind
More.
Understanding How Modern Liberals Think- Evan Sayet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIboXTpF6t4
The links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIboXTpF6t4
Shouldn’t it be anylonger?
Anywho, they cannot write because they are not asked to. When they are asked to they are asked about their feelings or not their thoughts. Logic is no longer taught. The trivium is no longer taught. The are not aske to do expository writing. They are not asked to describe anything in detail. They may not discuss whether something is good or bad only how all is equal. They text continuously and never craft anything in writing.
AND...THE NUMBER ONE REASON THEY CANNOT WRITE!
They do not read.
Try teaching music to someone who has never heard it.
An author in Psychology Today asks “Is it just me?” LOL
CC
Wright, write rite right.
Not just college students. Everybody. We’re devolving into a nation of illiterates.
Imagine a world where the common man is unable to read the founding documents in the handwriting they were written in.
The written word being made available to all men is probably the single greatest thing to happen to mankind.
In 60 years we have gone from Ian Fleming and JRR Tolkien to EL James.
No wonder people cannot write.
Because they are Wii tawded .....
Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer the main focus of today’s educational system. Those are things kids have to more-or-less pick up off the street now. Political correctness, socialism, and gay tolerance have pretty much taken their places.
The liberal plan of dumbing down America is working like a charm.
P.S. Since before I started college in 1991 (well after high school) the largest number of classes offered were remedial English and remedial math.
The leftists teaching our kids only care that they’ve been properly indoctrinated.
There is no desire to impart critical thinking or communications skills.
Because most of them aren't classically educated homeschoolers like my two kids currently in college.
Mind if I gloat a little?
:D
Because the education bureaucracy in this country is only useful as a money laundering operation for Democrats. Actual education is much farther down on their list of priorities.
A PHD actually wrote that title?
ROFLMAO. I txt u gud. What the prblm?
Schools are indoctrination centers and don’t teach writing or thinking. Why should they? They get the money regardless of the outcome of students. Thinking writing students won’t be easy to control.
In college, modern writing is in 140 characters or less.
Blogs.
“our standards in literacy is similarly on the decline”
I guess the is, isn’t they?