Posted on 11/08/2015 7:53:02 PM PST by TigerClaws
What does it take to generate a rabid, Maoist-style mob demanding political purges, on an Ivy League campus, in 2015? An email defending “offensive†Halloween costumes, apparently.
That’s what kicked off the latest nadir in campus zealotry, this time at no less a university than Yale. Typically the fall is a time when Yale students are obsessed with defeating arch-rival Harvard at football, a war on the gridiron that occasionally turn ugly. This year the sport of choice seems to be the public castigation of professors by students, a battle on the quadrangle destined to become just as menacing.
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Then a week later they went to Huckabee demanding he apologize and he said, "You know what? No!"
The entire, "Somebody somewhere has hurt feelings. Apologize!" leftist media tactic died.
Someone needs to do that on the college campi.
"Students won't play football? You're all losing your scholarships and kicked off campus and the coach? You're fired, too!"
27,000 applications to Yale every year and 2,000 accepted.
You don't like it?
LEAVE.
We'll replace you tomorrow.
Trump re-attached the balls to America.
I have thought about this a lot.
I do think we perhaps should allow the serpents to kill each other on college campuses.
Colleges will become unbearable.
You no longer need brick and mortar buildings. You can get an education through internet course work. It will happen one way or another.
Existential Cage Theory is an existential matter.
Get a cage
Put the liberal in the cage
Weld the door shut
Walk away.
Until we cage liberals, life on this planet is most assuredly at risk.
Looks like they’re training a lot of future Sharptons.
What you cannot get on the internet is validation of competence. There is a way to fix that.
Any human then could use any means imaginable to acquire the necessary knowledge to pass We Test tests. Any school would do, no accreditation required. The Internet is loaded with coursework and curricula, libraries and lab-simulators. Any human with the drive and intelligence to learn on their own could then qualify for a job. No saving for decades, no brainwashing, completely transferable work, at any pace one can withstand. Any employer could then simply select from a menu of We Test specifications instead of a diploma, at any level. We Test tests.
One would think that this should have happened a long time ago, but in fact there is one thing standing in the way that makes the realization of this seeming inevitability a matter of now or never.
State licensing requires degreed credentials obtainable only at said profligate, bureaucratic and unaccountable institutions charging outrageous fees and demanding excessive time as only a State monopoly could command. Why not just amend the legislation specifying education for state licensure by adding the simple words, "or equivalent"?
As an example of how little it would take, consider my wife. She just passed her board certification exam as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. She walked into H&R Block, sat at a computer, took a three-hour exam harder than anything she'd endured in her Masters' Program at Cal State San Francisco, and within five minutes after completion had her passing grade. If the private system can handle a test that specialized, why can't it test arithmetic, algebra, US history, or college chemistry? Instead of bricks and mortar, it would be e-books in quarters. Why not?
Save and grow community colleges as local centers of lifeA-long learning for everyone. Transfer research to the private sector and use existing college resources to coordinate distance-learning until they die out by attrition. Education is what is needed, and we now have better ways to accomplish it than the traditional college campus.
You cannot get a science education through internet course work. Budding scientists need the hands-on experience of doing real experiments. Most humanities courses could probably be taught on the internet. Language classes could probably be effectively taught with a mixture of in-class and on-line techniques.
I have thought the same thing as you for a couple years. The educational establishment is a Dem special interest group and will fight this with all the power that they have. But in conservative states, maybe something like this can be done. Of course, there are limitations, since the certification would not be transferable over to Dem states.
The campi aren’t worth saving; the students are.
I vehemently disagree. Why are the students there in the first place? There's no question of "saving" the students, they'll carry on as we all do. These ancient campuses represent the American academic tradition. If they are thrown to the winds, that puts us two or three steps closer to social and moral chaos, they way I see it.
This is not an issue that breaks down to conservative, liberal, or anything of that fine nuanced political silliness, this breaks down to civilization versus barbarism. At the moment barbarism appears to be winning, as it often does in history when the keepers of civilization fail in their charge. For those of us who have been systematically marginalized, dehumanized, and shown nothing but contempt now to be expected to rise above that and save the unworthy is, I think, asking a bit much. It may well be that the academy is an affectation that has outlasted its purpose and will go under to the savages, and to attempt to save it merely an avenue for accompanying it into oblivion. Honor and defend what the institution stands for, not the institution itself. And mourn what once was the very bastion of civilization, for now it is not.
The corporate whores seeing a way to get more for less will roll them in a heartbeat.
I have one of those Conservative kids ae a Very Liberal Campus.
Smart enough to keep his mouth shut in Class, he is not alone.
I happen to think that he is worth saving.
Ass.
I was awarded a United States function patent thirty years ago for a device that could have securely automated the testing of human’s knowledge at remote, unattended locations. See patent number 4,486,180.
Seems my idea was was a bit premature. None of the big computer firms of the time was interested in licensing.
The patent rights expired long ago, of course. But the strikingly handsome, contemporary product design was never published, and is still available.
C’est la guerre...
On line courses are becoming more and more popular. Why waste time on a campus? They are going the way of the big box stores.
This is what happens when schools stop teaching valuable skills because there are no jobs to send their graduates to; and instead turn their campuses into 60k a year “cool hang-out clubs where the children learn to hate America and God.
As a prof I have thought colleges were beyond saving for 20 years. All I do is, like Napoleon’s rear guard, slow the collapse.
That's all very well, and probably he'll graduate with the credential required to move on with his life, and maybe with conservative principles intact.
However, wouldn't it be better if intelligent students of any political persuasion could pursue higher education without spending four years and a zillion dollars keeping their heads down and mouths shut to avoid assault by Marxist zombies?
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