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Students, Get Your Culture outside the University
American Thinker.com ^ | November 26, 2017 | Christopher DeGroot

Posted on 11/26/2017 7:07:02 AM PST by Kaslin

Our universities are no longer committed to educating the young. Rather, the professorate has betrayed America’s future, and there is little more than lip service paid to learning in the noble sense of the word. What now matters most is the profit motive and filling students with a strange delusion called “social justice.”

The problem is not only that there is no such thing as social justice -- all justice being context-specific, that is, determined by relations between individuals -- because the young are not taught that culture is a way of life, and a far better one than the common hedonism -- they usually are never exposed to the books and films, the music and paintings, the architecture and sculptures that raise existence up to a higher plane. On the contrary, in a Satanic fashion, students are made to believe that these magnificent human accomplishments are a kind of conspiracy by which white men have long oppressed everyone. How false and perverse!

Born into a time gone wrong -- when wealth and the pleasures of the body are the most valued pursuits -- students find that that which alone can provide a wise direction is covered in darkness. Still more, that darkness is supposed to be virtue.

So, on the whole, the professors cannot be trusted; many are, as it were, demons pretending to be angels. The ever-canting social justice warrior, very deceptive with his Harvard Ph.D., is hardly better than a street thug. Indeed, it may be said of the latter that at least he is straightforward.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: culture; culturewars; education; highereducation

1 posted on 11/26/2017 7:07:03 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“What now matters most is the profit motive and filling students with a strange delusion called “social justice.”.........

More commonly referred to as “Brain Washing”.


2 posted on 11/26/2017 7:09:47 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Kaslin

“What now matters most is the profit motive and filling students with a strange delusion called “social justice.”.........

More commonly referred to as “Brain Washing”.


3 posted on 11/26/2017 7:10:39 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Kaslin

1) Get the fedguv out of the student loan business.

2) Stop student loans for all majors except STEM disciplines, and perhaps business; and be selective with those that are granted.

3) Stop federal money going to any institution which suppresses free speech or tolerates/advocates identity politics.

The problem will soon correct itself.


4 posted on 11/26/2017 7:15:44 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Kaslin

SOS!
Indoctrination is not edu.

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But everyone knows that............ ............


5 posted on 11/26/2017 7:19:02 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: gunnyg

Some evidently don’t. Like the “progressives”


6 posted on 11/26/2017 7:23:09 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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Unfortunately , there are two universities: STEM, and the rest.
Oh for the days when the lib arts actually presented an intellectually demanding and morally precise curricula.
(Yes, it does exist, but sadly, not to the extent needed.)


7 posted on 11/26/2017 7:38:05 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Kaslin

The meaning of social justice is whatever they want it to mean at the time, it is ever evolving narrative of propaganda and mental illness


8 posted on 11/26/2017 7:49:45 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Kaslin
The author insists on reading books. He says nothing about putting down the iPhones and getting off the mind-numbing and intellectually debilitating "social media".

Do most people under 30 even know what books are? Do they care? Can they even concentrate on one subject long enough to read one?

9 posted on 11/26/2017 8:35:17 AM PST by Gritty (The real battleground was never Raqqa or Kabul but New York and Paris, London and Rome-Mark Steyn)
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