Posted on 11/20/2023 6:16:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe.
Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly encountered college graduates who were poorly educated in basic skills and lacked general knowledge—and yet highly politicized, and intolerant of different views and opinions. Ignorant but arrogant is a sad way to start an adult life.
College, the public knew, has certainly eroded from our cherished idea of a four-year idealized respite from adult employment. It once was intended to be a place where youth learned to be open-minded, tolerant, skilled, and eager to learn the nature and traditions of Western civilization, art, literature, languages, philosophy, and history.
Instead, all too often “college” has now descended into a six-to-seven-year misadventure that nationwide often results in only half those enrolled ever receiving degrees. Nearly all sink deeply in student debt. And yet for all the borrowed tuition money, few prove capable of writing analytically, speaking articulately, or knowing the general referents, past and present, of their very civilization.
Students, especially at the elite campuses, learn to mouth monotonously accusations of “genocide.” “apartheid,” “colonialism,” or “imperialism.” But they lack the ability to define these nouns. As a result, they so often name drop empty slogans in the context of supposed Western sins.
Again, October 7 brought these sorry facts to national attention. Adolescent screamers on video showed no awareness that dropping leaflets and sending texts to avoid collateral deaths is not “genocide.” Most chant the “river to the sea” with no clue that it resonates the very ethos of mass murdering, mutilation, and dehumanization...
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Stop the contributions and tell them why.
VDH ping
Here is the simple fact.
You go to college for a specific job. If you don’t have a specific job in mind and/or don’t even know what you want to do. You shouldn’t be in college.
That’s like going to a restaurant when you are not even hungry and just start ordering random stuff off the menu
TODAY’S University students are the product of PARTICIPATION TROPHIES.
PURE & SIMPLE.
Contributing to “ universities “ is akin to intentionally feeding your body carcinogens.
Virtually all of the rampant, corrupt socialism in the United States was hatched in “ universities “.
Some people go to figure out what to do. I went with no idea what to do and I came out a conservative lawyer who joined the JAG much to the horror of my liberal Catholic journalist mother who wanted me to open a macrame shop or go protest against nuclear weapons. Koom bye yah.
Get the government out of the student loan business and have universities deal with it on their own, they’d have a vested interest in producing graduates who can get a job to pay them back.
Plus end the majority of student visas since they are mostly going to be anti American students
No.
Next question.
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Many universities could be and should be converted to upscale retirement communities.
No! Scorched earth, then salt the ground!
Here’s a crazy idea, stop student visas. It’s all about the foreign tuition for these universities at the expense of denying US citizens in more ways than just a desk. They are destroying this country and it has been proven by these protests.
Back in the 70s, my university was inundated with Iranians. They clearly hated us and hated being here. They were given top bell curve grades when they never showed up for class which left the rest of us with crappy GPAs. Times have only gotten worse with them.
Colleges should only be paid on the back end.
Tell the school what you want to study. Let the school judge whether you are smart enough and mentally stable enough to succeed in that field. If so, attend the school at no up front cost. After you leave the school, they send you a bill. No government loans. No bank loans. The school and the student are the only two players in this game. The financial risk is 100% of the educational institution. If you have become well-educated and are gainfully employed, you will be able to pay them back. If they have created an indoctrinated loser, the school won’t get any money.
And money from overseas should be banned from all US universities. No cash from China, Russia, or the Middle East. No foreign influence.
Doubtful. At least not without a systemic 4 or 5 decade effort. But I see no will for that anywhere.
“a six-to-seven-year misadventure that nationwide often results in only half those enrolled ever receiving degrees. Nearly all sink deeply in student debt. And yet for all the borrowed tuition money, few prove capable of writing analytically, speaking articulately, or knowing the general referents, past and present, of their very civilization.”
Matriculating kiddies should know that finishing on time in four years generally shows potential employers that you can deal with stress, finish work on time, and tolerate a lot of nonsense and might be able to serve a corporation well.
Exactly right. Government should not have anything to do with college education. They should not provide loans. If universities want to subsidize promising students, let them put their enormous endowments to use. Then they would learn to be bankers, evaluate risk, and only fund students with a high probability of paying then back when they graduate.
That would end 90% of the crap overnight.
I doubt if we can muster the will to do it, but a hard end to all federal student aid combined with severe changes in research grants would help.
It’s been going on for so long, most of the damage is done by now
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