Posted on 05/16/2020 9:06:59 AM PDT by rktman
In 2020 many memes pay homage to the high school and college seniors who were supposed to have a commencement and walk up in robes and square hats to receive diplomas. That is how civilized societies reward teenagers and young adults for wrapping up four years of general education. But the coronavirus changes everything, in the way money behaves in the Cyndi Lauper song “Money Changes Everything.” I wish I could be like the millions of people who can turn out a fulsome praise to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy.
Instead, I’d like to pay honor to the class of 2020 by giving them the precious gift of honesty. This crop of graduates has been lied to, probably more than any other. I should know, because for all the years they’ve lived, I was inside the machine that manufactured the lies.
This year I graduated at the age of forty-nine in my own way. After twenty years of teaching college students, I finally left my last academic job and moved on from academia. I watched twenty classes of students move through the system while these current graduates incubated. My departure was as unceremonious as their non-ceremonies are going to be.
So here’s some truth that needs to be told: Your teachers didn’t know what they were talking about most of the time. I know you may have liked many of them, but that’s a kind of Stockholm Syndrome you get from the deliberate mental work the institutions do on you. You’re in school and they are the ones to whom you are captive. That’s why they may have seemed so kind; they needed you to give them high teaching evaluations so they could be promoted.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wow. The tragic truth is about to hit the classes of 2020 in the backs of their heads with crowbars.
Long article which I saved to read later. Seems very good. Similar to Victor Davis Hanson’s book “Who Killed Homer?”
The academic community is a farce.
That part is certainly true.
What else is new?
The academic community at the 1-12 level doesn't attract the "creme de la creme." Why would it? Kids HAVE to go to high school.
The best place to teach is at the college level. Students don't HAVE to attend college.
The best place to TEACH is at a community college.
Teachers at universities have to become professors if they want to advance and professors are THE biggest bags of wind. They REALLY think that their s*** doesn't stink.
And they HAVE TO publish.
Who needs it?
The urban community colleges are the best because the students have to work to live in the big city--which is where the best jobs are. Students who work APPRECIATE their education because it wasn't handed to them by mommy and daddy.
Besides the universities DON'T WANT freshmen or sophomores. They will take juniors and seniors, since they HAVE to, but they REALLY want the graduate students. They do research and give the university a good reputation.
Yes, for some odd reason colleges expect you to be able to read and write full, cohesive sentences using words with more that four letters. Go figure.n Unless you were a minority. Long story.
I was a history minor in college and I took a class on on the history of food. It was the BEST class I ever took.
I did my term paper on the vitamin pill. I had asked the professor if the paper had to be 25 pages long. He answered that if I could say what I had to say in less than 25 pages that would be even better,
I wrote a nine-page term paper on the vitamin pill. He gave me an A+. I'm sure it was more for the brevity than the content. LOL.
Groypers Unite!
“...expect you to be able to read and write full, cohesive sentences using words with more that four letters...” Except for journalism.
I have told this to my students, but I also tell them that this exercise can help them to become more organized thinkers, which can help them to sell their ideas better later when they are in business.
you are blessed to have had coronavirus overshadow your graduation. You have had a wakeup call that I haven’t seen students receive in twenty years. When I tried to explain to previous classes that experts were not as knowledgeable and all-powerful as people assumed they were, they wouldn’t believe me. The whole system told them that the APA, AMA, NEA, MLA, ALA, NEH, NIH, CDC, DOJ, and the rest were the gold standard. Now you’ve had your commencement canceled because these experts said everyone had to stay home for two months, since they couldn’t think of anything else to do about a virus. You sat at home wasting day after day with nothing to do while the experts couldn’t pull together a large-scale triage system, distribute reliable antibodies tests, or find treatment for people who got infected. After billions in science funding, this. If you’re paying attention, you’ve realized they’re a clown show.
Lol. Do I detect just a wee bit of cynicism?
I don't read the newspaper very much, in fact, not at all. I do the crossword puzzles and word jumble and occasionally read some of the comics. That's it.
LOL! Not only can’t they put a coherent sentence together, apparently all the editors have been dismissed.
That is quite possibly why the written news media are DEAD in the water....glug! glug! glug!
That is true.
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