Canadian Cincinnatus

Education and Equality

Steve Sailor has an interesting article on the state of education in the US vs. Europe and Japan. His argument can be summarized as follows:

“American higher education today -- ultra-elitist Social Darwinism masked by politically correct rhetoric
German higher education -- leftist egalitarian mediocrity
American lower education -- leftist egalitarian mediocrity
German lower education -- hardheaded realism about human differences”

The basic theme is that treating everybody equally is very detrimental to educational results.

Cincinnatus

Steve Sailer has a good article about higher education

Over at vdare.com.

Of course the reason the higher education racket gets away with its excesses and its fads is because a university education is what separates the aristocracy from the peasants in a meritocratic society. Everybody would rather be an aristocrat than a plumber, even if a plumber makes $80k a year and is waited on at the restaurant by the artsie with a degree in comparative literature. And nobody has the guts to exclude all the people applying to university who have no business being there and who would be much better off learning a trade.