Source: New York Post
by Jeremy Adams
“Recently, writing in the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty Online, a Texas high-school teacher, Auguste Meyrat, brilliantly formulated the most precise description of education in post-COVID America: vegetative education. As he writes, ‘Teachers in past decades have been faced with two choices: educating students with challenging material and frequent grading or engaging them with fun projects and participation grades.’ What is he talking about? What does modern classroom instruction look like these days? To put it mildly: A lot of it is not very good. We can abolish the federal Department of Education, offer lip service about bolstering parental rights and abolishing DEI policies. But unless we acknowledge the hollowness of conventional classroom instruction, it won’t make a bit of difference. Here’s the dead giveaway: Our students suffer from a pathology of low expectations for themselves and especially for their teachers.” (11/29/24)