Eton teacher Knowland fired for Patriarchy discussion

Eton teacher Will Knowland was fired for this online discussion of sex and gender:

(I’m quoted on free speech at the 2:15-minute mark. Thanks to Marian Tupy for the link.)

While Knowland’s discussion takes up whether Patriarchy is natural/artificial and good/bad — the implicit lesson of his firing seems to be Thou shalt not challenge the Matriarchy.

One good-news item is that Eton students are fighting back on the teacher’s behalf and for genuine liberal-education values: https://j4mb.org.uk/2020/11/29/eton-students-turn-on-headmaster-over-teachers-dismissal/

Related: My 2019 lecture at Clemson University on why it has come to this, “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education.” Description: “Dr. Stephen Hicks pits postmodern philosophy against Enlightenment philosophy to highlight why and how liberal education is now subject to strong critique and institutional abandonment.”

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