On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Columbia University Associate Professor and New York Times columnist John McWhorter stated that “schools of education, too often, don’t teach anybody how to teach students things,” and “so often, it’s all tied up in how to teach students to be good leftist activists” and “all about social justice.”
While discussing failures within the American education system and a student suing her school over the quality of her education, McWhorter stated, “It’s partly the schools of education. It’s one of those things where, if you went to the typical education conference, you might be very surprised at how little people are taught how to educate. Instead, so often, it’s all tied up in how to teach students to be good leftist activists or how to teach students to be nice or there’s a code for all of this, empathy….
