Edmond Gordon. Don'tcha love the cutesy head tilt?
"His teaching and research interests include: power and identity in the African Diaspora, critical race and gender theory, and the racial economy of space and resources."
Posted on 07/07/2020 5:18:52 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The way US New and World Report ranked colleges based on different criteria, a new rating system is now needed. Colleges must be ranked on the degree of Marxism that controls the academic and social life of these “institutions of higher learning”. No decent conservative should pay tuition to an institution until they are informed of the places Marxist index.
Our overlords are planning to selectively block the internet from us knuckle draggers. That will solve a lot of problems for them.
I attended a large, highly rated and popular University for my undergraduate degree. Twenty years later I got my masters from a school I had never heard of before.
It opened my eyes to how utterly abysmal my undergraduate education was.
When it came time to send my oldest child to school it was readily apparent that the larger, more popular, and well-regarded an institution is, the more awful it’s actual ability to educate.
Big, popular schools are focused on politics, not education.
When people continue to pay full tuition for online education, we will find out how much the credential (name of college on diploma) is worth vs how much the actual education is worth.
I agree. I had two sons go to a smaller private university and one went to a Big 10 university. The Big 10 grad (PU), while at a smaller campus in Indianapolis, the student services sucked. The private university- UE- rocked it! I would not send another kid, if I had one, to a large university.
A lot of what they are paying for is the HARVARD name on their sheepskin. Much like watches. You can get a great Citizen Ecowatch that runs on light and is radio synchronized to an atomic clock for $300. Yet people still fork out $5K for luxury brand watches that are crappy.
Did anyone actually believe they were going to Harvard to learn? They famously say that the “hardest part about Harvard’s is getting in,” and kids who get into Harvard already know everything anyway.
As one commenter recently pointed out, Harvard doesn’t sell education, Harvard’s sells admission to the liberal elite. I don’t think this will affect them at all.
I still think there’s a case that can be made in this country to knock the entire system down, if someone would try.
What we now have is the equivalent of a pricing system where one goes to the supermarket and the price that he has to pay for groceries is variable, and is different for every customer, based on the customer’s income, assets, and access to further income (for example, as you walk by and look at the steaks, it flashes $32/lb., the next guy, who is not as well off, it flashes $11/lb.). If the supermarket customer says ‘go to hell, you don’t get that information, for your so-called dynamic pricing’, then they are forced to pay a ‘sticker price’ which is at least several times above cost and would fall under gouging laws ($58/lb., in this case).
The above is EXACTLY what pretty much all private universities are doing at this point (public schools too, but with a lower ‘sticker price’, it’s not quite as bad).
Edmond Gordon. Don'tcha love the cutesy head tilt?
"His teaching and research interests include: power and identity in the African Diaspora, critical race and gender theory, and the racial economy of space and resources."
Every institution and empire becomes sclerotic and corrupt in time. At the end of its life cycle there is a time when people realize it but they keep it going anyway for a while. The large cities are going through this.
No frat parties? I’m out!
And that is really the way the world works.
I sold real estate for a while. It became clear that driving a “brand name” (Mercedes) car was a sign of success and quite literally helped you gain client respect and earn more than the car is actually cost and FAR more than it is worth as a car (it’s why resale prices are so dismal).
But fact is, a good “shingle” has an actual dollar value.
Same with office buildings and commuting to white collar jobs in the “city”.
Virtual 3-D frat parties?
They teach hate.
Can I hook up with virtual 3-D chicks? :)
It’s almost the same with health care pricing
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase Home Schooling. When the products being marketed (higher learning) start out with Location, Name, and Prestige of Interpersonal Network, the PINheads falsely think that it’s their ideas in a PowerPoint (the actual death of education) that someone will pay for. Universities are about to go the way of newspapers. Hands on Tech schools will thrive; knowledge base switched online, not so successful.
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