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The pendulum may be starting to swing back toward a more moderate incremental embrace of change within the school systems of North America. We, thankfully, are starting to move away from ‘tearing down the old ways’ to acknowledging that the old ways were put in place for a reason and perhaps a more nuanced pace of change would benefit everyone in the school system.
“For decades, there was a general push and pull in the education world between progressives and traditionalists. The math wars stretch back at least to debates over California’s state curriculum in the 1990s. The phonics versus whole language debate began in the 1950s, and traditionalists have many times declared that phonics won. John Dewey first theorized a progressive education built on rationalist grounds in the early twentieth century, building on Jean Jacques Rousseau before him. As with old truths rediscovered, these are old debates as well.
Most recently, school systems embraced deconstructionism under pressure from anti-racist activists during Covid, imploring them to tear down old structures of discipline, instruction, testing, and curriculum. Traditionalists retreated while progressives advanced. Alas, an education system that forwent the basic truths of human nature was bound to fail, and schools are relearning old lessons.
In their renunciation of admissions tests, universities stumbled on the wisdom of the thought experiment “Chesterton’s Fence.” The purchaser of a new property, the idea goes, shouldn’t tear down a fence simply because they are unaware of its use. If they do, they may find snow drifts blocking their windows or wolves among the sheep. It is a call to respect the wisdom in existing institutions, but also a plea for intellectual humility. We may not know what’s best, so it is wise to respect those who came before.
What we need instead is a rediscovery of fundamentals, an acknowledgment that the old ways work, and a realization that if we sweep away everything old and try to reimagine something better, we will have swept away everything of value.”
I recommend going to Law & Liberty and reading the entire essay, as it advocates a reasonable way forward for Education in North America.
I would like to thank the IOC and these two fine individuals for illustrating the endpoint of what transgender ideology is. The erasure of females from the public sphere.
The last two days have been a revelation for me having gone down the Social Media rabbit hole on the males in female sport issue. What was most jaw dropping was the absolute conviction and dedication to a narrative that is most likely false. Both boxers Khelif and Lin Yu-ting did not meet the requirements for being female. Link here.
So, if one were to follow the available evidence a reasonable assumption could be made that both Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are male. They may present as female, but a male with a disorder of sexual development remains male. The ARD5 DSD is a likely diagnosis as detail by Dr. Emma Hilton:
So, the evidence available points toward both boxers being male. You would think though that if they were female they would submit the cheek swab that would end all of this controversy for good. Yet neither has. Funny how that works.
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