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The Case Against an IVY League Education

Posted on 09/26/2009 4:51:32 PM PDT by teg_76

-Ronald Reagan Eureka College

-George H. W. Bush Yale University

-George W. Bush Yale University Harvard Business School

- Bill Clinton Georgetown University University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholar) Yale Law School

-Barack Obama Occidental College (transferred to Columbia University) Columbia University Harvard Law School


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: highereducation; ivyleague; presidents; reaganbushobama
...our next president should be from a school in Idaho....
1 posted on 09/26/2009 4:51:33 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

one good president in that group.....one president that didn’t go to an IVY league school.


2 posted on 09/26/2009 4:52:33 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

Never hire a Harvard MBA, unbless you want to ruin your business.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 4:56:45 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: stubernx98

What good is a college or university education if one is going to be brainwashed and indoctrinated in ultra liberal philosophy and communist propaganda.


4 posted on 09/26/2009 4:58:54 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: stubernx98
...or worm your way into being the recipient of $500 million of unearned gov’t largess, paid for by your fellow Americans.
5 posted on 09/26/2009 4:59:41 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: teg_76

...our next president should be from a school in Idaho....

or better yet a catholic high school from the bronx or a good public high school from utah.
and who ever thought jimmah carbust deserved a degree rom annapolis should be fired.


6 posted on 09/26/2009 5:02:28 PM PDT by genghis
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To: teg_76
one good president in that group.....one president that didn’t go to an IVY league school.

On the bright side, most folks learn when to capitalize by the third grade.

7 posted on 09/26/2009 5:02:57 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: teg_76

Palin - school of motherhood


8 posted on 09/26/2009 5:06:59 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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To: teg_76

-Ronald Reagan Eureka College

Just seeing the 1st and last name of our Ronnie makes you smile. I remember breaking down in tears when the young Marine stood in line to walk past President Reagan in the Rotunda before his funeral. The Marine stood and saluted. All gave him room. He had been so injured that he had no hands. That was my moment to remember greatness always.


9 posted on 09/26/2009 5:11:12 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

Reagan still is an inspiration to many people today.

RINOs try to use the Reagan image and philosophy but when they speak their true intent belies what they really think.

And commie liberals don’t even come close TO THAT!


10 posted on 09/26/2009 5:15:11 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: teg_76

Calvin Coolidge, Amherst College


11 posted on 09/26/2009 5:25:26 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
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To: teg_76
Carefuls. The commielibs will brand you as "anti-intellectual" if you defame the Ivys.

Personally, if I were president, I would ban anyone with a Harvard or Yale degree from my cabinet. Perhaps they think they are so intelligent that they come up with truly stupid ideas that don't work in real life.

Whether they are a D or an R, if they're a Yalie or a Crimson, they have probably done more to f--- up this country than most of us could do in a lifetime.

12 posted on 09/26/2009 5:26:35 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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To: teg_76
Yeah. But the man who invented the Internet went to Haavid.

ML/NJ

13 posted on 09/26/2009 5:29:05 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: teg_76; metmom; Tired of Taxes; wintertime

“...our next president should be from a school in Idaho....”

I’d rather like to see a homeschooled President. Wouldn’t you?


14 posted on 09/26/2009 5:29:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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To: humblegunner

Ivy league schools are where kids are taught the chaotic, self-contradictory ideology of leftism.

For example, they teach that women in the middle east don’t need or want to be liberated from burkas, stones or bullets because their “culture” gives them a different “sense” of what liberty means.

Liberals are stupid from day one, when they accept the absurd notion that absolute truth doesn’t exist.


15 posted on 09/26/2009 5:30:57 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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To: humblegunner

I see from you coments you make an habet of corecting gramer/puntuation...git an life...no one is tying to impres you.


16 posted on 09/26/2009 5:31:01 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: teg_76

Thank you for making the forum appear populated with retards.


17 posted on 09/26/2009 5:34:18 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: teg_76

Although Ivy Leagues are probably the worst, the manure of leftist thought can be found on college campuses everywhere.

I think a good way to avoid the problem is for colleges to refuse federal funding, like Grove City and Hillsdale.


18 posted on 09/26/2009 5:35:38 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Liberals have neither the creativity nor the confidence to understand the truth of conservatism)
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To: reasonisfaith

Textbooks are full of liberal crap and propaganda and historical revisionism.


19 posted on 09/26/2009 5:39:50 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: teg_76
Don't forget Algore, Yale, and John F*n Kerry, Harvard. Henry Paulson, Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School. Tim Geithner Dartmouth College.

It just goes on. After twenty years of dominance in running things the Ivy League has just about destroyed America.

20 posted on 09/26/2009 5:46:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (truth--the liberal's kryptonite.)
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To: Sybeck1
Calvin Coolidge, Amherst College

Right. Another non-Ivy Leaguer who did a fine job.

21 posted on 09/26/2009 5:48:41 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (truth--the liberal's kryptonite.)
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To: teg_76

DEFINITELY NOT PC!!

Barack Hussein Obama is THE ONE.
Just ask your government schooled child!
Under 3 minute video depicting how the Obama cultists resemble Hitler cultists:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0GJSZttZE&feature=channel_page


22 posted on 09/26/2009 5:50:26 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: teg_76

Humblegunner is probably a teacher and member of the NEA. Doesn’t know what to think until instructed by Teachers Voice, but does know how to spell, punctuate, and capitalize properly.


23 posted on 09/26/2009 5:51:03 PM PDT by Spartan79
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To: hinckley buzzard

The Ivy league is now a farce. The whites there are very bright, but with grade inflations and few solid requirements they really aren’t learning anything. They aren’t well educated. A majority of the minorities would never make it in if they had to have the same SAT’s and grades and they aren’t allowed to be challenged.
Send your kid to a state school and force them to take solid subjects. No solid subjects no mullah.


24 posted on 09/26/2009 5:51:14 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Oldexpat

The real solid schools are no longer in the Northeast which have been discredited; the real solid schools are noe located in the South and the Midwestern states.


25 posted on 09/26/2009 5:54:14 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: humblegunner

im sory..pleese dont be upset...ill try too do beter next tim i rite you a messege so i don’t embaras you.


26 posted on 09/26/2009 5:55:53 PM PDT by teg_76
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To: reasonisfaith

I caught hell for pointing out the obvious.


27 posted on 09/26/2009 5:55:54 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear (`)
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To: teg_76

Drink your milk and go to school and one day you may write like an adult.


28 posted on 09/26/2009 5:59:45 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Spartan79
Thanks Captain N00bie!

Everyone was waiting around for you to show up and point that out.

You Are Teh Awesome!

29 posted on 09/26/2009 6:02:06 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: teg_76
Also - eliminate the lawyers in DC - the vast majority of our (cough cough) representatives are lawyers - and what are lawyers taught as the bedrock of their profession?

How to lie, cheat, anything to win - even when they know they are on the wrong side.

They lie like we breath, will even parse the word “is”

NO MORE LAWYERS.

30 posted on 09/26/2009 6:26:49 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" LINCOLN)
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To: humblegunner
ahhh - you do know he/she's putting you on, right? And you're just playing along?

I hope so. Otherwise, I'd have to think you're a stiff necked snob.

31 posted on 09/26/2009 6:32:58 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" LINCOLN)
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To: humblegunner; teg_76
Humblegunner,

Although you fault teg_76 for capitalization, but may — although you didn't talk about it yet — agree with the idea the Ivy League schools are way overrated and serve as a bastion of anti-Constitutional sentiment, why don't you say something about that?

32 posted on 09/26/2009 6:36:15 PM PDT by Tax Government
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To: Spartan79; humblegunner
Humblegunner is probably...

source of the most jollies I get around here. Could use a few like him offline!

33 posted on 09/26/2009 7:01:17 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; humblegunner
Hum, I think 668's saying he'd like you better if you were offline.

≤}B^)

34 posted on 09/26/2009 9:04:49 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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To: Erasmus

I don’t need an interpretator of your dubious gifts, Erasmus. Got plenty of those offline! Where at least they don’t get my gender wrong.


35 posted on 09/27/2009 4:04:49 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Could use a few like him offline!

Hear hear!

But as I'm sure you know...

There can be only one.

36 posted on 09/27/2009 7:05:12 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Indeed! And his name is Sean Connery.

(Sorry, Mel.)


37 posted on 09/27/2009 7:09:17 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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