Nut Meg’s Reviews > Anti-Intellectualism in American Life > Status Update
Nut Meg
is on page 287 of 434
"There is a type of alienation which is simply personal, which arises from the education and in some cases the personal culture of the expert. He is out of place. He is not the right kind of man, he would not be sought after as a companion if his services weren't needed."
— Jan 25, 2026 09:21PM
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Nut Meg
is on page 380 of 434
"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."
— Feb 05, 2026 05:57PM
Nut Meg
is on page 337 of 434
95 pages to go, let's see if I can do it by midnight
— Jan 31, 2026 03:22PM
Nut Meg
is on page 316 of 434
"Until 1830, most teachers had been men...opponents of women teachers were still to be heard in many communities, but they were often easily silenced when it was pointed out that women teachers could be paid one third or one half as much as men."
— Jan 30, 2026 06:00PM
Nut Meg
is on page 305 of 434
"The belief in mass education was not founded primarily upon a passion for the development of mind, or upon pride in learning and culture for their own sakes, but rather upon the supposed political and economic benefits of education."
— Jan 27, 2026 03:19AM
Nut Meg
is on page 265 of 434
"Whereas business had been an instrument of religious discipline, one of the various means of serving God, religious discipline now became an instrument in business, a way of using God to a worldly end."
— Jan 25, 2026 01:50PM
Nut Meg
is on page 203 of 434
"Business interests which suffered from Progressive policies-- and indeed many which suffered from nothing more than fear of further extension of regulation-- became convinced that the university...must be counted among their enemies"
— Jan 09, 2026 03:57AM
Nut Meg
is on page 166 of 434
"Furious menaces and bellowing exaggeration take the place of calm and dignified debate...Congress attains the unenviable fame of being the most helpless, disorderly, and inefficient legislative body which can be found in the civilized world." Lol some things never change
— Dec 30, 2025 03:18PM
Nut Meg
is on page 145 of 434
"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals; for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant, or a scapegoat."
— Dec 29, 2025 09:29PM
Nut Meg
is on page 133 of 434
"The literature of the extreme right also shows a significant continuity in style-- indicative of the degree to which the pattern of fundamentalism has become the pattern of militant nationalism."
— Dec 29, 2025 04:40PM
Nut Meg
is on page 123 of 434
"Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken"
— Dec 29, 2025 08:03AM
