Posted on 06/11/2015 11:31:40 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Scott Walker is advocating a reform in Wisconsin that could have more profound an impact on America than anything we have seen in a long time. Establishment leftism depends upon institutions that support and promote its philosophy and agenda using our money. The most obnoxious offender is Big Education, especially tenured professors who mock our values even as they rob our pockets.
Tenured professors are impossible to remove, they need do almost no work, and these goons spout Marxist nonsense and abuse conservative students with impunity. Even worse, overpaid professors and bloated state universities not only squeeze the taxpayers in tight state budgets, but also force middle-class families and young adults into debt to purchase the dubious benefits of a college degree.
Walker is proposing to end tenure in the state university system. Predictably, the overpaid and underworked professorial class is screeching about the loss of academic freedom. These are the same clowns who regularly intimidate conservative students in their classes, who exclude qualified conservatives from the very tenure they are defending, and who participate in keeping conservative speakers off campuses.
Instead of providing diversity in thought and encouraging “schools of thought” in academia, the totalitarianism of Big Education actively works to insure a monolithic voice whose solidarity is insured by groupthink and the Party Line. Consider some of the consequence of that in the intellectual life of our nation (or, as far as that goes, the intellectual life of our world).
....tenure is denied over and over again to any qualified academicians who stray from the pack. This suppression of genuine academic freedom means that science stays in the Stone Age of 19th-century Darwinism...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Eighty percent, or more, of tenured professors could be replaced by YouTube videos of a handful of the best lecturers in the country.
You'd only need to record them every few years, or longer.
The youth of America is VERY familiar with this sort or learning.
I'm amazed that the youth of America hasn't rebelled over the university bookstore scam, considering their familiarity with digital media.
Exactly.
The pull has been that “getting a good job” requires a college education.
It’s time to focus on the education and job and throw off the expensive Big Education wrapper.
*ping*
“Walker is proposing to end tenure in the state university system”
Excellent. Need to eliminate it from elementary and high schools as well.
I don’t think the Youtube approach would work as well as you think would
The issue the real corruption universities by the radical left in the 1960’s. Unfortunately the cure may be as bad as the disease.
Scott Walker is a dangerous man (to the establishment).
Good point.
Lesson plans/worksheets/tests are available online that teachers K-12 use, and certainly that occurs at universities, where a lot of this liberal indoctrination (and national policy study) is generated. Class content also comes from liberal outlets (such as National Geographic).
The difference though, is CHOICE - break out of the prescribed thought bubble.
The real bloat is not in teachers' salaries, but in scads more administrative personnel responding to ever-more state and federal mandates.
The reason that colleges can afford to hire so many administrators is because of college loans.
If anyone really cares about reforming higher education then they need to eliminate government backing of loans. The interest rates will go so high that virtually no one will take out a loan, and colleges will have to contain their costs in order to keep the seats filled.
Some corporations might agree to pay for some promising students' education if they promise to work for them upon graduation (sort of like ROTC). But then the students would have to get worthwhile degrees and actually learn something so they could be an asset to the company that was financing their education.
Then they wonder why all the professors are lefties.
Do you believe is the reason for getting a college diploma?
I've also heard Conservatives say that [fill in the teacher's name] had the greatest influence on their life and was responsible for their success. There are two sides to every coin. You need to turn it over once in awhile.
Sorry for the unintended edit.
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What do you believe is the reason for getting a college diploma?
If someone wanted to focus on a particular field and not give a damn about all that high-falutin' schoolin' then they would go to a specialized college or trade school.
Tenured teachers in such a university setting would be a good thing. They would be encouraged to explore the limits of their various fields. I would expect them to carry a decent class load each term and not just spend their time on research. I don't know where the custom of letting the best professors go without doing any teaching got started, but it needs to stop.
In a perfect world there would be a wide variety of professors thought-wise rather than skin-color-wise. The poly sci department would have conservatives, liberals, commies, libertarians, etc. It wouldn't have Caucasians, Hispanics, Asians, Blacks, Men, Women, Straights, Gays, etc. who all happened to be leftists.
Conservatives seem to want their kids to go into practical professions and stay away from commie universities, perverted Hollywood, and the cynical newspaper businesses. All of those professions used to have a greater variety of people. Some of it may be that conservatives who try to go into those fields are blacklisted. But I think a lot of it is also due to conservatives staying away from those professions either because they don't want to rub elbows with those nasty leftists, or because they want a more lucrative career so they can support a better lifestyle for themselves and their families.
I can't sit back and criticize any particular person's choice. However, I can sit back and look at the general lay of the land and see that not encouraging more conservatives to go into education, entertainment, and journalism has not worked out well. The foxes have gotten control of all of the propaganda mills, while we conservative hens fattened ourselves in our safe air-conditioned suburbs.
There are a few conservative schools that teach our homeschooled children, a few conservative celebrities that preach to the choir, and a few conservative journalists that tell us what we want to hear. Oh and a bunch of conservative think tankers that generate studies that prove to us that we were right all along.
Unfortunately there are countless more leftist professors, celebrities, and journalists providing a similar service for the evergrowing liberal mob.
Interesting post.
Thank you for setting the table.
If you were in charge, how would you “fix” things?
2. No government backing of school loans. Students would have to get loans on the open market, i.e. they would most likely not be able to afford them.
3. Eliminate the Dept of Education and, over time, eliminate all federal funding of state universities except for grants for research from the NIH, NASA, etc. State financing and accreditation of universities and colleges should replace the one-size-fits-none financing/mandates from the feds.
4. Allow companies to pay for students' education in exchange for requiring those students to work for those companies upon graduation for a specified amount of time. This would be similar to the ROTC program where the military will help with school expenses if you agree to spend a certain amount of time in the military.
5. One thing the feds should do is guarantee full compliance with the first amendment on all campuses. Speech codes, microaggressions, safe zones, the shouting down of speakers, etc. should all be actively discouraged and prosecuted where appropriate.
I also noticed that in some photos the times changed, and even the colors, but the furniture remained the same.
To think that tuition was always on the rise, and the dean was still to cheap to get new furniture!
Good!
Pictures say so much.
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