Anytime.
Circa 1960
Not being content to merely be stupid, some need a diploma certifying them as such.
College is just a continuation of the stupid slide indoctrinated in government schools.
I worked at a certain university in Cambridge, MA in the 1980s. There was a series of observations that multiple people made at the time:
Due to very selective criteria, the 18-year-olds who arrived on campus were noticeably smart. Bright-eyed, eager, curious, hungry to excel beyond their already notable accomplishments.
The students working on a Master’s degree were a little dim. Jaded. Challenging to talk to because they interrupted and corrected people — often despite the fact that they knew nothing about the subject under discussion.
The students working on their doctorates were idiots. Angry. Unreasonable. No one wanted to talk with them because it was so darn frustrating trying to make simple concepts clear to them.
People who never experience real deprivation, hunger, physical combat, or existential threat, but instead are pampered, fed by others and taught to constantly seek self gratification are not the stuff of greatness.
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any “pressure” on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Many of us are well aware of this “Survival of the Fittest” theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species’ least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the same laws of nature that affect all of God’s creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species are allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, then the population collapses, and we, my friends, are currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.
Going into debt like that is stupid from the start.
1962
My favorite was the recently minted Stanford MBA grad who wanted Shark Tank money to get her new business going.
When Kevin O’Leary mentioned her high valuation, she proceeded to lecture Mr. Wonderful and told the self-made multi-millionaire “that’s not how business is done.”
the response.
I’m out
I’m out
I’m out
I’m out
I’m out You’re dead to me.
Book smart, reality stupid.
Mid 1800s when the anti Christians started taking over the universities.
Because it’s like someone goes out and steals some nuts and bolts from a railroad track; they go to college where they learn to steal the whole track.
Since they stopped just teaching for the degree and getting out quickly. It has became a money making propaganda machine for the left not to mention a scam as you can not get out in the to long time they say to begin with, because of changes in courses for the degree while you are trying to get that degree. It is a massive scam.
John Dewey is probably most famous for his role in what is called progressive education. Progressive education is essentially a view of education that emphasizes the need to learn by doing. Dewey believed that human beings learn through a 'hands on' approach.
Dewey's educational theories were presented in My Pedagogic Creed (1897), The School and Society (1900), The Child and the Curriculum (1902), Democracy and Education (1916) and Experience and Education (1938).
“What, you go to college to get stupid? You’re really stupid.” - Sonny Corleone, to Michael, “Godfather II”
The nonsense and higher education bubble starts to end at the state level. It starts with a conservative legislator speaking on the floor of the legislature to say several hard truths:
1) The purpose of state subsidies to higher education is so that students can have better jobs than they could with just a high school diploma or GED.
2) This means that those degrees with high rates of employment in that field of study within six months after graduation are worthy of being subsidized.
3) This also means that those degrees with little or no employment in that field of study within six months after graduation are NOT worthy of being subsidized, so should be DENIED funding not just for this reason, but because they DIVERT students from degrees that CAN benefit them.
4) This ABUSE of students is coupled with leaving many of them CRIPPLED BY DEBT FOR DECADES. So in addition to cutting off their funding, there should be a prohibition of the use of STUDENT LOANS to take these degrees in state funded institutions.
If these students and their parents wish to impoverish themselves, they are free to do so through private institutions. The state should IN NO WAY encourage or support their doing so through taxpayer funded institutions.
So, what legislator is going to make a name for himself by getting the ball rolling on this?
Since the explosion of useless politically-infused majors that cater to social fads and victimhood, and that don’t require much effort.
That was the year the people of the town of Oxford, tired of the behavior of the students and sick of them claiming privilege, decided to hang a couple of them for murder.
Present day collages should heed the warning.
But they probably won't.