I would like to nominate the cult of “Brain Based Learning”, the latest cult fad to hit the schools and trivialize the education of American children, waste the time and money of taxpayers and destroy the futures of otherwise bright and capable children. New Age pop psychology meets pedagogy and no ones left in the education establishment to defend learning. Robert Borks comments years ago about the effects of the academy on the quality of the culture were indeed prescient. The public schools and colleges of “education” of this nation are the the repository of the Pied Pipers leading the children of this nation to Gomorrah.