Status Updates From Anti-Intellectualism in Ame...

This is taking me a while - it's a lot of information. Good, but a lot to digest.

Very good, interesting how relevant it’s is today having been written almost 70 years ago.

"The characteristic intellectual failure of the critic of power is a lack of understanding of the limitations under which power is exercised. His characteristic moral failure lies in an excessive concern with his own purity: but purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed."

"When power resorts to knowledge, as it increasingly must, it looks not for intellect, considered as a freely speculative and critical function, but for expertise, for something that will serve its needs."

"As soon as the inherited notion of learning as a leisure-class activity is discarded, the style of education it represented also falls under question...Academic and scholastic, instead of being titles of honor, are becoming terms of reproach."

"In the name of utility, democracy, and science, many educators had
come to embrace the supposedly uneducable or less educable child as
the center of the secondary-school universe, relegating the talented
child to the sidelines.... This group has indeed been neglected by many educators and looked upon...as a deviant, a side issue, a special problem, at times even a kind of pathology."