Canadian Students’ Decline in Writing, Thinking Skills Amid Rise of Ideological Education Worries Profs

Over the past decade or so, professors and students at various universities have engaged in self-censorship, coerced into conformity by rules and expectations that have made them not dare to speak controversial ideas, writes Mark Mercer. Katherine Daly Morris/Shutterstock

Some Canadian political science professors are concerned about their students’ inability to write good essays due to poor knowledge and literacy and the ideological bent in academia.

Travis Smith, a political science professor at Concordia University in Montreal, said he and his colleagues began noticing a “precipitous decline” in the quality of students’ writing roughly 10 years ago.