Posted on 07/11/2017 7:02:04 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Now this is a very interesting poll. 58% of republicans think colleges have a negative impact on the country.
I've seen several reports about this poll, and surprisingly, every single report omits the most important word:
INDOCTRINATION.
The real question isn't if republicans have a negative opinion of universities. The real question is: Does America even have universities?
I'm very serious about that. A "university" that engages primarily in progressive and communist propaganda and indoctrination and does not actually educate, can it legitimately be called a college or a university?
I would answer that question quite firmly as a no. America has very, very few actual universities and colleges.
And I say that as someone who recently graduated. I can confirm with first hand accounts, "college" "professors" are an important source of social justice propaganda. "College" "professors" are likely the single most important single source of social justice propaganda. They're not engaging in education. They're engaging in something very akin to what happens in a re-education camp. If parents accompanied their kids and actually saw what professors say and do, and actually read the books that are assigned, parents would be pissed and would have every right to be pissed. These aren't universities, they're re-education camps. Their primary goal is to roll back all that damage you did as a parent, and show your kids "the correct way".
If a Cuban re-education camp can't be called a university, why should we call American re-education camps universities? Cuban, Chinese, Russian, there are(or have been) re-education camps all over the place. They're not universities.
And years later after the dust settled and there were no more bombs to blow up, a sizeable number of Weather Underground former members went back to colleges as "professors" to train the next generation of communist revolutionaries. Your children.
I think a guy going off for a degree in engineering...is probably going to get a wise investment. Beyond that....with all the fake degrees and marginal areas of study...I would question the other 70-percent of studies. Especially if you going into debt for $80k to $100k and doomed to make only $30k a year for the first five years of employment.
Only the bad ones
The hard sciences were fairly free of politics, but that is changing. Anything to do with history, education, or social studies of any kind is revisionist, Marxist, and multicultural idiocy.
It was already bad in the 70’s but at least you could voice your opinion - but now - there is no free speech on the university campus anymore.
I agree, so my answer to this question would be yes, universities are bad for America.
Unfortunately most universities have become Marxist indoctrination centers where free speech is banned and only groupthink is tolerated.
Exactly the opposite of what should be a place of exchange of ideas and robust debate.
RE your tag line. That’s exactly what Russia, Russia, Russia is, it’s a smoke grenade.
Keeps people from looking for the real answers like was Seth Rich the leak of the DNC e-mails and was he killed for it?
That whole “engineering degree avoids the propaganda” ideal is a myth.
A very large portion of indoctrination happens in english/writing comp classes, humanities, math (yes, I said math), ethics classes, earth sciences, and other unavoidable prerequisites. All students, including engineering students, take these classes.
There is no escape, the progressives have assured that.
Yes. Universities have become EXPENSIVE Marxist indoctrination centers.
This professor gets it and explains the cure...
Postmodern NeoMarxism: Diagnosis and Cure
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4c-jOdPTN8
Parents should insist that they have the right to monitor classes at colleges. They should have full access to class content, either via video or by literally sitting at a class. Otherwise, they should threaten to withhold paying tuition or send their kid to different colleges.
Too much fake learning going on there.
Like Reagan said: “It’s not that they don’t know anything; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
At this time, yes.
At this time, yes.
At this time, yes.
When I graduated from college with a BS in engineering 25 or so years ago, the engineering courses were taught by actual engineers - but that is part of what made my college different. They required professors to have practical experience in industry, and to renew that experience periodically.
I would much rather my children go to a trade school than college these days. At a trade school, they will learn how to do a job, and how to make money from doing a good job.
In college, they will learn how they (being white, and in one case male) are the prime source of evil throughout the world today.
Colleges are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
Colleges are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
Absolutely. They’ve become postmodernist cesspools.
They are not only bad for America but for sanity.
Even the science and engineering colleges are getting infested with this cancer.
I see all this action and I can tell it’s all being done by intelligence services, but there’s no way of knowing which one(s). Occam’s razor and the drip by drip story coming out though, suggest to me that the CIA is weaponized against our own people and is creating the entire facade.
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