{"id":13588,"date":"2024-04-02T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2024-04-01T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:12:18","slug":"institutions-of-higher-education-to-conformity-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13588","title":{"rendered":"Institutions of Higher Education to Conformity Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2024\/03\/how-weve-gone-from-institutions-of-higher-education-to-conformity-colleges\/\">George Leaf:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Americans realize that our higher-education system is decaying, its standards in decline while costs continue to rise. Is this situation like a tooth with a cavity that can readily be fixed? Or is the decay so deep that we need something far more serious, such as a root canal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Barnhizer\u2019s new book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conformity-Colleges-Destruction-Intellectual-Universities\/dp\/1510780289\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JYWAUDA6Y5TB&amp;keywords=david+barnhizer&amp;qid=1707411046&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=david+barnhizer%2Cstripbooks%2C88&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Conformity Colleges<\/em><\/a>, strongly suggests that we must have the latter. His subtitle explains that we suffer from \u201cthe destruction of intellectual creativity and dissent.\u201d That\u2019s an accurate diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An emeritus professor of law, Barnhizer has written a no-holds-barred expos\u00e9 of the tragic fall of our institutions of higher education. Our colleges, he states, \u201chave turned into a one-sided process where true believers who see the world through an ideological lens have taken control.\u201d Instead of graduating thoughtful, mature people who can employ reason to evaluate claims and arguments about the world, our schools produce increasingly large numbers of people who act as \u201csocial justice warriors,\u201d single-mindedly following the lessons drummed into them in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Leaf: Many Americans realize that our higher-education system is decaying, its standards in decline while costs continue to rise. Is this situation like a tooth with a cavity that can readily be fixed? Or is the decay so deep that we need something far more serious, such as a root canal? David Barnhizer\u2019s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13589,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions\/13589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}