America’s higher education brought low

Washington Post ^ | George F. Will

[kearnyirish2]

20+ years ago I went to a state school in a city here in NJ; no party scene, and most people showed up for their classes then headed off to their jobs. Campus agitators (’60s throwbacks seeking a cause since the Vietnam War ended) would try to gather a rally for some silly cause or other, and after 15 minutes of being ignored would simply disappear.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Her doctoral dissertation

It is a good thing...The Commodification of Femininity, Affluence, and Whiteness in the Martha Stewart Phenomenon.

It really is time to start laughing at these clowns, not the ones who write such a dissertation, but those who judge it "meaningful" and don't throw it in the trash with a laugh.

[jsanders2001]

> For.35 thousand per year above room and board. Getting liberal arts degrees and working where? Doing what? After college

and let us not forget "gender studies". That's a useful one... but only in tnis administration; to get hired at the WH.../s

[bert]

yes but following the highest of girly principles, she is making a difference. that s all tha counts

[armydawg505]

Listening to the Post whine is classic. Not many other newspapers did more to bring us to this state we are in now.

[stanne]

Cheating?

Who cares?

Our kids are socializing. And not in ways that are even healthy. Pressuring kids in the forms. Creating environments in which it is difficult for students to study

Learning is not what a lot of our kids are really there for

Forget it.

[stanne]

Serious kids are not taking these stupid classes

[SC_Pete]

George Will used to be a conservative. Now he’s a Uniparty hack, willing to craft a concatenation of nonsense to further the interests of a corrupt, illiberal, movement to create a New World Order at the expense of US sovereignty, wealth, and security. He is no better than the CPUSA he nominally abhors.

[GOPJ]

Students on Columbia University's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board suggested trigger warnings for persons who might be traumatized by reading, say, Ovid's "Metamorphoses," wherein some myths portray bad sexual behavior. But a feminist blog warned that the phrase "trigger warning" itself needs a warning attached to it because it might remind people of guns. But, then, the word "warning" might [substitute word for "trigger"] fright. So, today give thanks that 2015 has raised an important question about American higher education: What, exactly, is it higher than?

George Will at his best...

[abclily]

Thank you, George Will, for writing this column.

[EternalVigilance]

“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount.”

— Martin Luther

[Califreak]

Their causes are getting stupider by the minute.

[kearnyirish2]

Sure, but if they are around People That Matter they draw no audience or participants.