The Federalist
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A recent study charting the results of nearly 400,000 IQ test samples shows Americans’ IQs have actually been dropping since 2006.
Frida Ghitis: The authors suggest the quality of our education is the most likely culprit.
She says the caliber of education has decreased since the George Floyd riots brought hyperbolic claims of “systemic racism” and diversity politicking to the highest value in the educational pantheon.
Ghitis says the educational bureaucracy’s “solution to such glaring problems has been to lower standards.
Julian Zelizer: With dumber students coming to college, rampant grade inflation has taken over universities as well.
He says universities are simply handing over more diplomas to uneducated morons, who can then worm their way into the workforce.
Grad schools have felt the same tremors, Zelizer says, facing pressure from the powerful diversity lobby, leveling the usual charges of systemic racism”.
Athletic competition of the sort that gave rise to the Olympic Games that we still cherish today served as the model.
Subjects such as gymnastics, music, and poetry were taught through healthy competition.
This vision of education in ancient Greek society may appear quite foreign to us now, and indeed, it may have been better suited to a small, close-knit, and homogeneous society.
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