Education & Miseducation

From their own sinkholes of stupidity, the bearers of terrible news assure us that lower IQs in America don’t necessarily mean lesser mentation, just a different kind of mental equipment. Fatherly magazine is positively fatherly about America’s dropping IQ scores: ‘It might not be a bad thing.’ Yay.”—ILANA MERCER, “On Trans-continental Stupidity & The Tit-For-Twat Sex Debate,” April 12, 2023
“America is ‘experiencing’ historically unmatched levels of stupidity. Risen to prominence around us is a sub-intelligent underclass of people, sexually straight and bent, whose behavior is grotesque.”—ILANA MERCER, “On Trans-continental Stupidity & The Tit-For-Twat Sex Debate,” April 12, 2023
“An indispensable adjunct of American-style systemic stupidity is PRIDE; we’re loud-and-proud about being handsomely equipped to fail.”—ILANA MERCER, “On Trans-continental Stupidity & The Tit-For-Twat Sex Debate,” April 12, 2023
“Things start to fall apart when the best-person-for-the-job ethos gives way to racial and gender window-dressing and to the enforcement of politically pleasing perspectives.”—ILANA MERCER, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali,” February 25, 2021
The American Idiocracy is moving at breakneck speed to equate merit-based institutions with ‘institutionalized racism.’ Or, think about it like this: When merit-based hiring is deemed racist, bridges fall down. Literally.”—ILANA MERCER, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali,” February 25, 2021
The American government is marred, at every level, with similar set-asides, preferential hiring practices and affirmative action, which compromise an already compromised institution (the State, where incentives are inverted, as in the less efficient they are, the more funds government departments get). The U.S. government hasn’t had an entrance test since 1982.”—ILANA MERCER, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali,” February 25, 2021
“Our country is suffering a blackout of intelligence. It is collapsing under the blackhole of affirmative action.”—ILANA MERCER, “Systemic, Institutional Rot: From Big Freeze In Texas To Fires In Cali,” February 25, 2021
“I feel for the kids. They are not to blame. Their arrogant idiocy, inculcated in schools, is carefully cultivated and then reinforced with incontinent praise from pedagogues and parents alike, from K to university. Progressive schools and teachers—overseen by teachers unions—are responsible for the quantifiable rot; for the monument-smashing, monumental ignorance among America’s youth.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Conservatives like Candace Owens have equated keeping kids out of school with keeping kids dumb and compliant. How is that so, if schools are producing kids this banal, boorish and bossy?”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Kids use only the most rudimentary, emotionally evocative language, for lack of a solid, ever-accreting vocabulary, higher-order thinking, and proper restraint in affect.As to restraint: Not coincidentally, an asphyxiating hysteria simmers beneath the surface of the prose to match the vapid vocabulary, whereby breathy figures of speech are deployed to fit a simpleton’s febrile, emotionally overwrought state-of-mind: “Unbelievable, incredibly embarrassing, amazing, OMG!” In short, exclamatory utterances.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Hallmark cards are edgier, more original and intuitively truer than the monolithic minds of America’s young, and those who’ve raised and taught them.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Pidgin English is what the young, high-school graduate speaks. Pidgin English, or Ebonics if black. Oh, yes: Ethnic linguistic affectation and oddities are treasured as culturally and politically precious and authentic, rather than just lazy and plain ghastly.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Anyone under 50 seems to be similarly afflicted: This cohort can’t use tenses, prepositions and adjectives grammatically and creatively, or appreciate a clever turn-of-phrase, or conjugate verbs correctly. Has anyone noticed that the past perfect tense is dead in America? People will relate that they ‘had went’ to school or ‘had came back from the cinema.’”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“With welcome exceptions, the young can hardly string together coherent, grammatical sentences. They open their mouths and out tumble nothing but inane, mind-numbing cliches and banalities spoken in gravelly, grating, staccato tones. Vocal fry, the linguists call this loathsome sound.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Self-esteem is the royal jelly upon which America’s children are raised. Our child-centered, non-hierarchical, collaborative, progressive schooling has produced kids who do not believe they can and should be corrected; and when corrected lash out in anger or bewilderment.”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Conservatives have kept insisting, throughout the Covid lockdowns and quarantines, that kids were missing out on an education because they were out of school. To paraphrase Joan Rivers, how can you miss out on a rash? (When Madonna accused Lady Gaga of stealing her music, the great, late, lady Joan wanted to know how you could steal a rash.).”—ILANA MERCER, “U.S. Kids Can’t Read, Write Or Do Math, But Are No. 1 In Critical Race Theory,” October 14, 2021.
“Most great literature doesn’t meet the sub-intelligent standards of the woke illiterati, who control the intellectual means of production—the schools (primary, secondary, tertiary), the press, publishing houses, think tanks, Deep Tech and the Deep State.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Wussification Of The West: Will We Ban Shakespeare For Othello And Shylock?“, March 11, 2021.
“Spending protracted time in college or university is almost guaranteed to turn-out individuals whose uniformity of opinion is as scary as its uninformed nature.”—ILANA MERCER, “Simplest Source of Voter Fraud Is Baked Into the System,” November 19, 2020.
“Implicit in tethering a lack of education to Trump support is that the more educated a voter, the smarter. And the smarter the voter, the more likely he or she is to support the Democrats. Correlation, of course, is not causation. My hypothesis, however, points to a confounding variable or factor—in other words, another variable related to both education and voting-patterns that could account for the good sense displayed by degreeless Trump supporters. Voters without college or university degrees have not been institutionalized during life’s formative years.”—ILANA MERCER, “Simplest Source of Voter Fraud Is Baked Into the System,” November 19, 2020.
“By now, the Critical Race rot is institutional; it is the handiwork of progressive—regressive, rather—parents, pedagogues and politicians.”—ILANA Mercer, “Institutional Critical Race Rot,” September 17, 2020.
“A new kind of Kafka confronts any author whose thoughts veer from those of the mono-cultural mainstream. Books that enlighten never see the light of day or are digitally burned by the Amazon monopoly; pamphleteers that dim debate find publishers and ‘respectable’ reviewers.”—ILANA Mercer, “In Defense of Looting,” September 25, 2020
“Just as the colleges have abandoned their duty to educate, so too have publishing giants long since betrayed their mandate to publish quality books. These conglomerate quislings collude to ensure that a lot of dough is forked out for a lot of drek.”—ILANA Mercer, “In Defense of Looting,” September 25, 2020
“Conservatives keep insisting COVID quarantined kids are missing out on an education. But aren’t progressive schools and pedagogues—overseen by teacher unions—responsible for the rot; for the monument-smashing, monumental ignorance among the youth?”—ILANA Mercer, “Mercer Quotes,” July 9, 2020.
“H. L. Mencken cannot appeal to the bumper crops of humorless, dour ‘dunderheads’ America is now siring. He cannot resonate with those who are afraid to question received opinion, who cannot conjugate a verb correctly, use tenses, prepositions and adjectives grammatically and creatively, or appreciate a clever turn-of-phrase.”—ILANA Mercer, “H.L. Mencken: Misfit In 21st-Century America,” American Greatness, June 29, 2020.
“In their low-watt rambling one can find no evidence that young conservatives have imbibed foundational literature that might equip them to write rationally and inspiringly about capitalism—and freedom.”—ILANA Mercer, “Conservative Kids Must Learn Before They Lead,” The Quarterly Review, November 1, 2019.
“It’s not egalitarianism that the schools are increasingly teaching, but anti-whitism.”—ILANA Mercer, “It’s Not ‘Identity Politics,’ It’s Anti-White Politics,” Townhall.com, February 29, 2019.
“Public flogging is cheaper, safer, and more effective than sinking more money into one of the worst schooling systems in the developed world.”—ILANA MERCER, “Public Flogging, A Modest Proposal,” The Quarterly Review, November 27, 2018
“Your common, garden-variety academic is selected and elevated in academia precisely because of a pre-existing condition: a globalist, deracinated disposition.”—ILANA MERCER, “Trashing Populism: Dim-Bulb Academic Vs. Deplorables,” Townhall.com, April 18, 2018.
“Kids are Democrats by default.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Teacher’s Pets Of Douglas High Can’t Think Straight,” Constitution.com, March 2, 2018.
“Learning requires peace of mind. If fortress conditions are a prerequisite for survival—if fortification keeps the barbarians [school-shooters] at bay—then the rational mind will find tranquility in security.”—ILANA MERCER, “The Teacher’s Pets Of Douglas High Can’t Think Straight,” Constitution.com, March 2, 2018.
“Without the literary canon, young minds are doomed to become as dim and sclerotic as those of the educators who assign them piss-poor reading material. The literary canon is the best antidote to the educational Idiocracy.”—ILANA (December 5, 2014)
“Natural order is not predicated on state-enacted laws. The natural order that has worked throughout the ages to tame young terrors is predicated on hierarchy; on the preservation of clear, never-to-be-blurred boundaries between adults and kids. These boundaries were once upheld in-house—in the principal’s office, the home and the church.—ILANA (June 29, 2012)
“Restore old-fashioned discipline to classrooms and school buses. Revive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Better still: Drain the septic tank that is our federalized education system, and with it the auxiliary personnel that infest the schools and feed off a dwindling tax base. There is now one non-teaching adult for every eight or nine children.”—ILANA (June 29, 2012)
“America’s progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females. This feminized, cloistered world is the perfect breeding ground for bullies in the making.”—ILANA (June 29, 2012)
“I am now convinced that American society will collapse upon itself like a black hole under the weight of a young, mostly WASP, idiocracy rising.”—ILANA MERCER, “Home Free On Facebook? Think Again,” July 29, 2011
“Do use the term ‘government unions,’ won’t you, as ‘public sector’ or “public servants” implies, incorrectly, that these slackers serve the public.”—ILANA MERCER, (February 25, 2011)
“An ‘intellectual’ underclass has risen to dominate America in almost every field of endeavor.”—ILANA Mercer, “Writing In The Age Of The Idiot,” October 9, 2009
“In America’s progressive schools prurience and psychobabble combine in equal measures.”—ILANA (June 27, 2008)
“For decades, America’s progressive schools have been conducting a sick experiment in parallel parenting. Gloucester’s Hatchery High is the payback: It’s Rosemary’s pedagogic Baby.”—ILANA (June 27, 2008)
“Despite being the best funded school system in the world, American public schools graduate the thickest kids in the developed world.”—ILANA (January 26, 2007)
“The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.”—ILANA (January 27, 2006)
On smashing the state’s monopoly over education: “Staying stupid is a perfectly valid choice, so long as it’s not a government-enforced status quo.”—ILANA (January 29, 2006)
“[Ward] Churchill’s tirades are [not] bereft of any truth. … But, unless one is a magpie, one doesn’t rummage through garbage in search of bright objects.”—ILANA (April 20, 2005)
“Government schools produce misguided, mediocre and frightfully monolithic minds…the uniformity of opinion is almost scarier than its uninformed nature.”—ILANA (September 3, 2004)

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