Posted on 09/20/2016 4:54:19 AM PDT by wbill
>>”I’m a little disappointed in High Point University for allowing him to be here because I think of this environment as one that promotes diversity of one that includes all types of ideas,<<
The irony of that statement is lost on the child who spake it.
I have a degree from HPU. It’s a country club school. They agreed to create a school in Winston Salem and take advantage of the tuition plans of Sara Lee, RJ Reynolds and Integon. They made a ton of money. That’s how I got mine.
I bet they had to look long and hard to find a student that could say a complete sentence.
Josh, exercising the voice is easy, perhaps since you are in college exercising your mind might be more appropriate.
“In the interest of diversity of idea, we should ban these ideas”
Brilliant. She’ll put that Sociology degree to good use.
exactly. Rather like, “We needed to destroy the village in order to save it.”
“It’s important for all voices to be heard as we fight to keep Trump from speaking”
“What if we allow him to speak”
“Oh my gerd, you aren’t allowed to say that. Someone throw them out. That’s just, like, so stupid. “
High Point is a private university that is quite expensive. My oldest son gave it some consideration: it has a good business program, among some other strengths.
As with most schools, one segment of students is going to class, getting their degrees, and getting on with life. Another segment is mostly partying but may graduate eventually, if only because their parents cut the money off. Only a small minority is involved in deranged “activism,” but they get most of the attention.
The logic is not strong in this one.
Eliminate "brick and mortar" universities that foster this leftist herd mentality. A university is properly a center for the search for truth, not a job credentialing racket (if that) which can be used by radicals to homogenize the politics of the students.
All too many of these sorry excuses for edumakashunal institutions are really no more than a platform for a four year orgy of sex and drugs at ridiculous prices subsidized by Pell grants, and federal loan programs to keep the cash flowing, pay tenured college teachers obscene amounbts and turn alumni/ae into indentured servants without any allowance for bankrupting $150,000-$200,000 in student loans for undergraduate edumakashun alone. All this for leftist indoctrination. No thanks!
As long as there are "free public libraries" (thank you, Andrew Carnegie!) as much education as anyone desires at no tuition cost whatsoever is no further away than the library.
Want a conservative education for your kids or even an even-handed and quality education? Encourage conservative or neutral scholars to recommend a curriculum, text books, supplemental readings and, perhaps, if necessary, a paid tutoring program for specially difficult subjects.
Encourage the idea that college level education should equip the mind of the student to deal with academic and intellectual challenges. It is NOT job training or even job credentialing. It is not for shoring up political prejudices or "community organizing." It is not for sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. It is not intended to be a swell paying job program for otherwise incompetent leftists.
If a college or university wishes to exclude a Republican POTUS candidate, that school has a property right to do so. OTOH, as an institution of higher learning engaged in the search for truth, the school has no moral right to do so. A school that excludes Republican candidates should not want to dirty its skirts by accepting tax money paid by Republicans. Cut off all federal aid to each such college to preserve its pristine morality. It is the least we can do.
High Point is a very weird place. It’s a new, instant campus that looks like it was poured out of mold. Someone had too much money and thought they would create a school. Not much of a school, from what I saw on my visit. They play classical music on loud speakers in the quad, but have no Classics Department, no Latin or Greek. I doubt that teaching good grammar is a high priority, much less the ability to think.
Is there any reason to believe that Miss Elizabeth is holy???
She is a shining example of the problems of higher education in those hallowed halls across America. So many choices of diverse degree opportunities, yet so few that offer success upon graduation. One of the reasons I refer to them as educated idiots.
The media has to look long and hard to find these types. College students tend to have a very shallow understanding of politics. Most of what they know comes from the echo chambers of the internet. They know how to ridicule and that’s about it.
You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to say something like that.
Somehow, she wants diversity (except for Trump's ideas).
So much for teaching critical thinking in our universities. It would be fun to see Thomas Sowell rip this apart.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. This interview was seen by the cameraman, the reporter, a video editor, and likely some sort of program manager, and they all agreed that her foolishness needed to be put on display. You'd think that common sense would have broken out, somewhere. Unless they all agreed with her OR were trying to stir up some controversy.
Or, they came up 15 seconds short and needed some filler. :-)
While I'll agree that their knowledge is shallow, they actually think they know more than they do, and that is always dangerous. To view yourself as knowledgeable while being incapable of seeing your true ignorance is a recipe for disaster. Finding these people is way too easy, and in fact the media rarely needs to look beyond their own ranks to find them. It is and has been a herd mentality for decades now.
Yup. She should have been asked if she believes in the U.S. Constitution. Then ask her what about the first Amendment. Make her eat her words and look like more of a fool.
"....but not if that person expresses a point of view different from my own."
I’m faculty. College kids get their political info from comedy shows/talk shows. They don’t seem to read newspapers or watch the evening news. News is something they watch when something bad is happening.
They hate Trump because they have been told that hating Trump is what they are supposed to do. No other real reason. However, Trump has a following on campus because he is hype. They like hype.
That idiot should go have some cocoa with Pajama Boy in his mom’s basement and wait out the terror of Trump.
I stand corrected then I guess.
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