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there are now millions of ‘students’ who don’t belong in college, or at least don’t belong in the mostly-useless courses they’re taking....
yes, studying some humanities, arts, classics..can be good...(can add to the appreciation of life, etc.)...but that’s NOT good if done to the exclusion of acquiring a means of earning a living doing useful things for people and society (nursing, medicine, mechanics, building trades, engineering, you name it). And yet, so many students nowadays are doing just that...wasting, in effect, four or five or six years of their lives...(while, yes, going into debt to do it....)
and yes, teaching is NOT indoctrination, at least not in the Western “liberal” tradition! These hardcore leftist commie/nazi professors (and administrators) need to be rooted out of academe ... not for their dangerous politics but for failing to teach in the first place
Another example of why VDH is slowly being handed the reins as Intellectual National Treasure from Hoover colleague Thomas Sowell
This man, Victor Davis Hanson ...... I wish he lived right down the road so we could shoot the breeze from time to time.
He is a gem of a man.
One of his gems is appropriate for today.
"Freedom from fear, if I read St. John aright, is one of the planks in the platform of the Antichrist. But that freedom is delusory and evanescent, and is purchased only at the cost of spiritual and political enslavement. It ends at Armageddon. So in our time, as Yeats saw, Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Lacking conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, the captains and the kings yield to the fierce ideologues, the merciless adventurers, the charlatans and the metaphysically mad. And then, truly, when the stern and righteous God of fear and love has been denied, the Savage God lays down his new commandments. Sincere God-fearing men, I believe, are now a scattered remnant. Yet as it was with Isaiah, so it may yet be with us, that disaster brings consciousness of that stubborn remnant and brings, too, a renewed knowledge of the source of wisdom. Truth and hardihood may find a lodging in some modern hearts when the new schoolmen and the parsons, or some of them, are brought to confess that it is a terrible thing to be delivered into the hands of the living God. . . ." - "The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man" - Russell Kirk.
-—as usual, VDH nails it-—