A future student for our Ivy-covered North Koreas.
Posted on 05/04/2015 1:07:05 PM PDT by QT3.14
Every time we seem to have reached peak insanity when it comes to the intellectually constipated and socially stultifying atmosphere on today’s college campuses, some new story manages to reveal vast new and untapped reservoirs of ridiculousness. In a world of trigger warnings, microaggressions, and official apologies featuring misgendered pronouns that start a whole new round of accusations, wonders never cease.
So when ’60s-radical-turned-Reagan-fanboy David Horowitz shows up at University of North Carolina to equate Islam with terrorism for the thousandth time, the student body gets the vapors, tries to shut him down, and creates the hashtag #notsafeUNC.
When a student publication prints a story called “So You Want to Date a Teaching Assistant?” in a special satirical issue, the whole run gets pulped.
When Laura Kipnis, a feminist professor at Northwestern, publishes an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education extolling her experiences sleeping with professors while a student, two current undergrads lodge complaints with the university’s Title IX office.
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A future student for our Ivy-covered North Koreas.
Eloi
BYE-BYE-BIRDIE
What’s the matter with kids today?
Twenty years ago when teachers were discouraged from grading the chirrun’s papers with red ink because it would cause the chirrun psychic distress, this should have been an obvious result.
I’m so sick of the term “fanboy”. Unless you are talking about Comicon it’s time to retire it.
Over the decades I haven’t been a big fan of the “LABEL” GENERATION, names thought up by the nation’s media.
One that could sure be apropos these days would be the “bubble wrap” generation.
These kids are totally unprepared for the real world. Our university campuses bear no resemblance to society as a whole.
These kids come out of the universities today woefully blinded to the real world.
“What’s the matter with kids today?”
The better question is: “What’s the matter with the adults?”
Children grow up however you raise them. If we don’t like the way they have turned out, that’s not the kids’ fault.
“Trigger Warning: College Kids Are Human Veal”
I’d like to try the Harvard parmigian. Does that come with a side order of pasta?
The first problem is that we call adults in college, kids.
They’re your “kids” if you are their parent. That’s a familial term on endearment.
The term “kids” should not be used at any other time after high school.
Oh, the horror of it all. Though, when you mention it, anytime I see a paper with red marks, my BP goes up a few notche. Maybe, just maybe it worked with my generation. The same might be said for paddling and standing in the cloak roonm at younger ages.
Your photo perfectly illustrates the effect of Common Core on the brain (what is left of it) and the effect of John Dewey’s Worldview, which is dripping from all curricula, and the neo-Freudian literature. TV (spongebob type stuff) destroys maturity and moral formation and stunts the interaction of the two sides of the brain. Stupid people watch TV and watch others live and waste their time.
Get children OUT of artificial institutions and allow them to take RISKS and to LIVE LIFE-—practice human interactions and experience Real Life experiences (work and have responsibility which is age related) with a father and a mother (or grandparents.)
A Lincoln or a Wilberforce could not exist in today’s culture. They would be programmed to be a dependent, addicted, fearful, lazy person, who will just bask in instant puerile gratification. Virtue is habituated and taught by repetition in childhood and with Christian Ethics taught and practiced. Without Virtue, Freedom is impossible. You will be a slave (addict) to vice.
Experiences dictate worldview....don’t allow strangers and perverts (Marxists) to shape their minds. Human interactions (like Amish lifestyle) in young childhood creates Common Sense and Wisdom and moral people..
I disagree. College students, for the most part, are not fit to be called “adults” in anything but the legal sense. They have chose to prolong their adolescence, often long past the time they graduate college, so I will prolong calling them “kids”.
A splendid sentence. Memorize and steal.
Students .........the other white meat!...........
Amen, sister. I’m printing out your post and hanging it on my wall.
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