“College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.”—U. S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
Current Wisdom
Out-Of-Closet Traditionalists
“I’ve spent most of my life in academia, and can say with some conviction that most professors have no friends or colleagues who are out-of-the-closet traditionalists.”— Robert Maranto (rmaranto@uark.edu) , 21st Century chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.
Imagine No Imagination
“You know that a lot of people don’t have a big imagination, even with sixth-graders, their imagination is slowly dying, so you have to continue to dream big and you can do great things in life.”—Imaginative sixth-grader Gabrielle Williams
Everybody Gets A Prize
“The ‘everybody gets a trophy!’ school of thought does not make students confident, but renders them cynical.”— Douglas B. Reeves, founder of The Leadership and Learning Center
Work-based Self-esteem
“Students build self-esteem through the confidence acquired as their work improves their results.”—Douglas B. Reeves, founder of The Leadership and Learning Center
Summer School
“It may be summer time, but some college campuses never take a break from P.C. indoctrination.”—Michelle Malkin
Rite of Passage
“No child who goes to these schools should get through them without being humiliated.”—Charles Murray on the state of higher education in remarks at the Fordham Institute, June 26, 2012.
Modern Day Robber Bandits
“Thwarting banditry is a positive good.” Jacksonville State University economist Christopher Westley
Deepak Lal’s “Lost Causes”
“In reality, the state does nothing else but redistribute and serve its own purposes.”— Deepak Lal at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
Social Justice Bill of Rights
“A ‘social justice bill of rights’ might begin, ‘Government must provide…” a home, car, job, French bulldog puppy, whatever.”—Jonah Goldberg , The Tyranny of Cliché`s.