Mark Bauerlein

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Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein

@mark_bauerlein

Editor @firstthingsmag, Em Prof of English Emory U; author The Dumbest Generation; Literary Criticism: An Autopsy; Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906

Katılım Kasım 2014
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Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@ThomasSKidd In the 90s and 00s, humanities programs did a very good job of passively discouraging conservative or traditionalist oriented undergrads from entering the fields. All the energy was toward identity and politics--a big turn-off for anyone not excited about the movement.
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Modern Age@ModAgeJournal·
“Brookfield Academy and other schools in the classical movement are not trying to invent a new educational theory so much as to recover an old one: that schooling is for the formation of minds and the cultivation of a life well lived.” From @MrDanielBuck @AEI: modernagejournal.com/classical-scho…
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41·
It’s an incredible dynamic, as American students get dumber by every other metric they are doing better than ever on College Board’s AP! I am in communication with administrators from the most selective universities in America and they universally think AP is a joke.
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Joshua D Phillips
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
“Oh. You want to be an English major?!” “Yes.” “Great! Here’s some books to read.” “No.” 🙄
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@MindofTorres What is a vendor to do when the product it sells is understood by buyers as valuable insofar as it makes them look good, but is understood by a secondary party (the college) as valuable insofar as it makes some buyers look good and some not good?
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Michael Torres
Michael Torres@MindofTorres·
"The College Board, the agency in charge of the AP program, admits its questions are easier and passing scores have been lowered on key tests like the English Language exam." educationnext.org/dumbing-down-o…
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
Because of AI, English teachers must make writing assignments in-class and schedule one-to-one instruction in office hours, which means many more English teachers must be hired.
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Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️
Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
Every teacher I know personally is leaving the profession because students have become unteachable. They don’t read, they don’t talk to each other, they have no curiosity, no passion, no interest in learning. Giving kids unfettered access to screens has ruined a generation.
Steve Magness@stevemagness

In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job. In 2022, that dropped to 12%. We've got a serious problem brewing in education...

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Brandon Luu, MD
Brandon Luu, MD@BrandonLuuMD·
Students who took notes by hand scored ~28% higher on conceptual questions than laptop note-takers. Writing forces your brain to process and compress ideas instead of copying them.
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Miles Commodore
Miles Commodore@miles_commodore·
Every public high school in America should be teaching how credit cards work, how to get a mortgage, and what mutual funds are and how they function. 16th century English literature is great, but how about equipping our children with what they need in the REAL world.
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@amwilson_opera Twenty years ago, profs who banned laptops and derided Wikipedia and loathed handhelds were cast as benighted, hidebound, out-of-touch reactionaries.
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Alexandra Wilson@amwilson_opera·
"A significant return to paper and pen is required...Everybody in higher education knows this already. But not everybody will admit it. University administrators in particular don’t want to admit it". unherd.com/2026/03/how-ai…
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@PhysicsHawk One of the best signs of college readiness is the ability to listen and study when you are bored to death.
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@CaitlinPacific Academic leftists have been assailing "the idea of America" for more than a half-century, and they have steadily drawn academic liberals to their alternatives through highly-effective guilt trips and intimidation.
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Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific·
The idea of America was so radical that it’s amazing it’s lasted this long. You’re going to miss it when it’s gone.
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Steve Stewart-Williams
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill·
“Because most psychologists lean left, they may be more inclined to characterize people on the right as having maladaptive cognitive and personality traits that explain why they get everything wrong.” [Link below.]
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@MrLandesman The Suzuki strings curriculum, which parents and participants admire, is prescriptive and universal--all students follow it and teachers never alter the sequence of works practiced and performed.
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North Landesman@MrLandesman·
I go to a daily workout class. They model the exercise first, then the class completes the exercise. All of the instructors use the same central curriculum, so which instructor I get is interchangeable. This concept should not be that difficult for schools and teachers.
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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@JamesWHankins1 One consequence of the productivity model of tenure in the humanities is that what might have been a superb and substantive academic essay was turned into a baggy, mediocre monograph.
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eburke@JamesWHankins1·
A group of us once tried to talk Harvard into offering Hont a professorship but the idea was vetoed by Larry Summers on the grounds that he hadn't published a major book. This was just before 'Jealously of Trade' came out. Now there are departments at Harvard hiring people on the basis of an article or two.
Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Ed@ufhamilton

Hamilton's @MaxSkjonsberg reviews a new book with essays from the late Istvan Hont, who illuminated the seventeenth-century natural law foundations of political economy. #UFHamilton lawliberty.org/book-review/bu…

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Mark Bauerlein@mark_bauerlein·
@SketchesbyBoze All students used to have to read the Great Books as part of Gen Ed requirements. When colleges eliminated Western Civ, enrollments in the humanities majors declined.
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Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze·
I hate that schools everywhere are closing their humanities departments and shuttering their physical libraries. How are students going to fall in love with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen if they never encounter them? We are rapidly entering a new dark age.
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it really is enraging that university libraries have stopped buying physical copies of books.

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Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt·
Teachers and parents: if you know anyone on a curriculum selection committee, please send them this tweet, ask them to choose book-and-paper oriented curricula. Thank you @karenvaites
Karen Vaites@karenvaites

Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩 This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September: "I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper" Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion? Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts? 1/2

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