bad education

Matt Goodwin

"Buy this book" Douglas Murray
"An Urgent Call for Reform" by David Goodhart

The controversial new book from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller National Populism, Values, Voice and Virtue.

Frustrated teachers and frustrated students. Funding crises and declining standards. Culture wars and campus protests. Welcome to the world of collapsing academia. Welcome to the world of bad education.

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Our universities are failing. Once beacons of truth and higher learning, they are now dilapidated institutions failing a generation of young people. Mired in funding and admissions crises, mired in political scandals, governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. This controversial book shows why, and what we must do to fix them.

Matt Goodwin has spent decades working as an academic at some of the world's most prominent universities, delivering poorly funded courses to increasingly isolated lecture halls, sitting on rudderless committees, counseling depressed colleagues and anxious students, and watching standards decline and academic integrity deteriorate.

At the heart of this crisis is an increasingly politicized campus. Our universities, once bastions of free expression, forums for open debate, and incubators of bold new ideas, have increasingly become monocultures, governed by an ideology that silences respected voices, stifles debate, violently shuts down diverse opinion, betrays intellectual freedom, and fails to deliver the very fundamentals of education. This bold, shocking, and urgent firsthand account provides an insider's perspective on how the founding principles of academia are being eroded and why we must all consider what this means for today's and tomorrow's students and the world they will shape.