(...) but I'd possibly hate myself for not doing so. The issue for education is not that one argument wins over another but that politicians decide an ideological stance and then constructs the whole sector in its image. /2

His infamous 2006 paper on Constructivism also showed he had never read anything by the people he critiqued. Albeit, that is more a comment on the ethics of academia and policy wonkery than Kirschner. If I could write papers on stuff I knew nothing about I wouldn't do it /1