Status Updates From Anti-Intellectualism in Ame...

This book is so hard to get through bc it was written in the 60’s and uses metaphors and people from the 60’s which I have no idea what they are. I think the main points are very important but also nothing a teen girl hasn’t thought about before a man in his 20s so…idk if I’m gonna continue this one:(

“Right-wing hostility to universities was in part a question of deference and social status, but in part, also, a reflection of the old Jacksonian dislike of specialists and experts … The universities, particularly the better-known universities, were constantly marked out as targets by right-wing critics.”

Statement on "abnormal" children From the United States Office of Education (1950s) - "A considerable number of children...deviate sufficiently from mental, physical, and behavioral norms to require special educational provision. Among them are the blind, the deaf and the hard of hearing, the speech defective, the crippled, the delicate, the epileptic, the mentally deficient and the extraordinarily gifted."