Thomas Bertonneau Retires

Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part I–Farewell, Students

Waiting for part 2.

Thomas Bertonneau on Tattoos

The Thinking Housewife: Tattoos and Being

Emotivism: Deliberate Social Engineering or the Historical Consequence of the Enlightenment

Deliberate through mass education and justified by successive ideologies that have taken hold in that institution.

Yes, the dichotomy between historical causes isn't a true one - both could be at work.

Thomas F. Bertonneau: Post-Literacy and the Refusal to Read
Post-Literacy Continued
Discussion at The Thinking Housewive: Post-Literacy Chews Up Minds

I Agree!

Down with Research Papers!
They rely on easily accessible sources and deference to conventional opinion; students should be assigned essays instead.

By Thomas Bertonneau

Thomas Bertonneau's series on literacy and reason

A three-part series by Thomas Bertonneau:
Can't Read, Can't Watch, Can't Comprehend. Today's post-literate students don't read movies any better than they read books.

Literacy Lost. University faculty are finally noticing that college students don’t read very well, but Neil Postman and Jacques Ellul saw it years ago.

Forget U. Tradition depends on memory, but modern culture depends on forgetting.


(via the Thinking Housewife)