Posted on 01/19/2016 4:56:00 PM PST by Kaslin
Thank you for that. Reading on cell phone this evening so I guess I touched the wrong reply field!
Sanders has the right idea. College education should be free. In fact, lectures far superior to any you can get in an “affordable” college are already available at no cost online.
The only thing lacking is a third party certification to show that one has mastered the material. If the Democrats were truly in favor of a public funding model for college education, then they would propose Government creating that third-party testing standard (turn every public library in the Nation into a test center!) and leave the Universities to cater to those that want to pay their own way.
It’s affordable, leaves the Universities a niche in education (with competition to keep prices down!), and provides free college degrees for those who want to work hard to learn. But it will never happen, as the College faculty will mobilize their communities and their students to “save the Socratic method!” and vote anyone even trying to mention this approach out of office in a heartbeat.
My personal feeling is it’s only a matter of time before online college will bury the brick and mortar business model even without Government intervention.
Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss' home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
"Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together," Drew says. "We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics."
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
"He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth," says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
"The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others," Drew says. "That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren't paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing."
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as "part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society." ..."
Referring to Obama's quote from "Dreams of My Father" that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, "What he's not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama's later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright's ideology."
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