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What about the Classical Learning Test? I have a real issue with the evolution of the SAT, in particular, anything having to do with the language portion of the test because grammar is not classical English grammar, but modern American grammar simplified for ebonics speakers. And sentence structure and paragraph structure for writing are analyzed according to the fit to standardized patterns which leads to boring, stilted, proasaic writing. William F Buckley would probably flunk.

At the same time, places like Harvard have done a marvelopus job of deprecating the value of their credential. Thinking that it is the credential that is of value rather than that the credential represents rigorous selection according to intellectual capability and the subjection of that ability to rigorous education that builds both factual knowlege and critical thinking. Instead thinking is replaced by wrote adherence to leftist doctrine and factual knowledge is replace by the ravings of critical theory and the student who can be brainwashed is selected and the student who excels and being brainwashed is credentialed. And you get clever mushheads in the process.