Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2019-06 to 2026-05.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
The education system is failing due to ideological indoctrination, political bias, and a lack of open, critical discourse.
10 people · 7 episodes
He advocates for the complete abolition of university faculties of education due to their role in promoting poor research and detrimental educational fads.
“And the faculties of education, which I think should just be abolished. They're certainly their monopoly on teacher certification should be revoked like tomorrow and permanently”
Jordan B Peterson · May 2023 · 6 episodes · 3.3M views on this topicModern anti-racist programming in schools often operates as a form of indoctrination that suppresses open discourse and authentic inquiry.
“if if students can if i if if the type of you know willingness to ask a question it in response to some of these you know what i consider to be indoctrination frankly at other schools and you think that's happening in other schools yeah i mean i it's no question”
Jordan B Peterson · Apr 2022 · 1 episode · 371K views on this topicUniversity environments should be the place where students are encouraged to explore difficult and controversial ideas, but this mission has been abandoned.
“I mean I think it's obvious to anyone who understands the pipeline of how you go from school to college to work to life that this is the one part of your life that was specifically carved out for you to think about things to explore different ideas to challenge and be challenged and that's now been ”
Triggernometry · May 2026 · 5 episodes · 1.5M views on this topicThe education system is failing to produce critical thinkers because it prioritizes avoiding the emotional distress of students over fostering genuine debate.
“There's a fear that I see at the college level and the high school level around the emotional impact of the students to be able to have these conversations.”
Triggernometry · May 2026 · 1 episode · 740K views on this topicShe believes that the American public school system is being negatively impacted by woke ideology and requires parents to take an active, involved role to protect their children.
“It's about the way the woke are targeting our children for indoctrination and what parents can do about it.”
Jordan B Peterson · May 2023 · 1 episode · 608K views on this topicHigher education and standardized testing models are outdated, debt-inducing, and fail to provide practical value or genuine learning.
8 people · 8 episodes
Traditional university education is an outdated and poor financial investment that leaves students with significant debt and limited career prospects.
“it's 80 grand a year to go there just to ition not room and board four times eighty three hundred twenty grand and the average salary that a University of Pennsylvania arguably one of the best schools in the country gets when they get out of sixty seven thousand dollars a year so it makes no sense”
Impaulsive · Feb 2020 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicThe current education system fails to teach students practical life skills like credit management, taxes, and communication.
“you never learn about credit cards in school you never learn a lot of things in school yep so when you see stuff like this you're like alright this cop this kid's like well short asian kid well how is he doing all this”
Impaulsive · Dec 2019 · 1 episode · 745K views on this topicStandardized tests like the SAT are flawed and should be eliminated in favor of alternative assessment methods.
“We need to dead this SAT, man. We need to find a different way cuz kids aren't, you know, I just used to get flustered taking this test four hours.”
The Pivot Podcast · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 366K views on this topicColin claims the education system should provide more alternatives to college because not all students are suited for it and many are graduating with excessive debt.
“I've come to believe that, bluntly put, not all students are meant for college. Not all young minds are uh I don't want to say capable of college, but it's just not the right fit. They're not the right aptitude. And that's okay, you know, and um I can get into it later, but like there's plenty of ot”
Soft White Underbelly · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 317K views on this topicHasan claims that modern American higher education has become a for-profit enterprise that prioritizes profit over teaching, leading to a less educated and more easily manipulated population.
“it was tremendously beneficial for the modern Republican movement to make sure that uh education was completely paywalled and inaccessible for large chunks of American society. It was also a win-win for the colleges that wanted to turn this into a a gay hedge fund for themselves, right? Because that”
HasanAbi · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 307K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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