Posted on 07/07/2020 5:18:52 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Harvard: America’s most expensive University of Phoenix clone. – Harvard announced on Monday that it will hold no face-to-face undergraduate classes this fall – all “learning” the students accomplish will be done on-line. This plan could also extend through the spring semester of 2021.
Oh, but guess what? That $49,000 tuition per semester won’t be commensurately reduced. Oh, no – perish that thought.
Think about what Harvard and other universities who take this same politically-motivated approach are about to see happen to them over the next year: Millions of parents who have been either footing the bills or watching their kids go into heinous debt so they can attend classes in the “hallowed halls” of extremely overrated brainwashing factories that are largely responsible for producing the mindset behind all of the Marxist-led social unrest we are seeing this summer are going to realize just how unnecessary those “hallowed halls” happen to be.
It’s inevitable. We are going to see the exact same dynamic take place in the commercial real estate market as employers are figuring out that most of their employees are actually more productive working from home and don’t need to commute to and from costly office space every day.
If all “learning” can be achieved equally well from a distance, if every university can become just another University of Phoenix, then why in the hell have America’s parents been paying for the building of all of these stupidly-costly palaces filled with tenured professors who haven’t really taught a damn thing in decades? Surely, an institution of higher learning like Harvard would not implement a 100% distance-learning agenda unless it could ensure its students continued to learn at the same pace, right?
Well, right???
Here’s the other thing that is inevitably about to happen: Many parents of students learning from home are likely to take advantage of that fact to witness first-hand the kind of Marxist/anarchist crap these universities are indoctrinating their children with. And those parents are going to be horrified, and they will talk with other parents of other students who they know.
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One of the dirty little secrets about the Antifa/BLM domestic terror complex is that the vast majority of those chubby, pasty-white Millennials you invariably see leading those riots and making up most of their participants were indoctrinated with Marxist/anarchist ideology while in college. These aren’t teenagers – the basic age group appears to be in the 25-35 year old range. They didn’t just think up all of this anti-America nonsense on their own or stumble into some organic riot planning meeting – they were steeped in this radical ideology by university professors.
About a month ago, some football players at The University of Texas famously sent out a long list of demands about renaming buildings, removing statues from the campus and declaring the school song – The Eyes of Texas – to be “racist.” (It isn’t.)
Guess who wrote that list of demands? If you think it was those football players, you might be naive about the thinking and writing abilities of 20 year-old wide receivers. The list was written by a radical professor at UT. That professor’s name will inevitably be made public soon enough.
The point here is that these kids don’t just come up with this stuff on their own. Left to their own devices, these kids are going to drink some beer, smoke some pot, listen to a whole lot of really bad music, study a little bit and end up getting a 4-year degree in 5 or 6 years. But at our nation’s universities, these professors and other campus radicals aren’t going to leave them to their own devices. And that’s how you end up with a dozen U.S. cities being looted and burned by domestic terrorist groups over a month of one summer.
Thus, one of the great benefits of a year of distance learning is that these students will have far less exposure to their professors and thus, much less indoctrination time.
There is no more fundamentally archaic, financially draining and wasteful institution in America today than the nation’s university system. By pretending for political reasons that they can’t risk letting 18 to 23 year-olds who are virtually impervious to COVID-19 go back to school this fall, these universities are about to reveal their essential uselessness to the world.
Cool.
That is all.
I had this discussion with the wife. Most likely our girls are not going to college unless Hillsdale is within our means. Looks more like trade schools.
Both Bill Gates and the Facebook guy couldn’t handle four years at Harvard. Snobs, Elizabeth Warren types.
That $49,000 tuition per semester won’t be commensurately reduced. Oh, no – perish that thought.
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Agree. And I heard that foreign student sign up for American universities is way down — which is a huge financial hit to them.
I live near the University of Georgia (UGA). It will be interesting to see if students come back or not.
UGA will open, and an interesting change is that the university will do “distance learning” from Thanksgiving to the end of the year.
The last football game of the season is a homegame against Georgia Tech — two days after Thanksgiving.
Harvard is probably only doing this to appease the Boston Liberals and appease the “you-must-wear-a-mask” fanatics.
Fancy payday loan stores. Instead of a car title they hold your birth certificate.
I can’t wait until the good teachers go rouge and set up their own course inventory.
The good news is the annoying left wing profs and students will have no physical place to march if they are getting an online education. Love that we don’t have to see them and they are stuck behind a computer screen. They can throw that brick at their computer screen and, like a tree falling in the forest, there will be no one there to hear it....other than their parents who were suckered by the university into paying 49 grand
Great idea.
I have an old Casio Men’s Pathfinder Triple Sensor Multi-Func... watch that is pushing being a decade old. It still works off of the daylight, gets set by the national atomic watch..
It is waterproof, shockproof and even my adult sons can’t destroy them with rigorous outdoor activities.
I can buy the replacement for $149.62.
Critical race and gender thoery....racial economy of space and resources...ya think this guy knows anything else? Sounds really complicated.(sarc on)
I have a Seiko Kinetic that is 20 years old now. Works great.
I also still have my Seiko that I got for a college grad present. If I put a battery in it, it would work.
Just in order to boot Trump, they are going along with having primarily freshmen on campus, while having the classes online.
And the real truth is that most in-class courses aren’t all that enhanced by being in-class. Harvard especially is famous for its lower-level courses being taught by relatively big names in big lecture halls, while TAs handle more of the smaller upper-classman studies.
But Harvard students are there primarily for two things: the connections and the brand degree. Most critical connections are made as fellow freshmen, since that’s when the abiding friendships are made, and, wait for it, the freshman will still be on campus together this fall.
Moreover, most Harvard parents are wealthy and the money is worth it in their eyes, even if junior takes some online classes. Those parents who are not have their kiddos on scholarship, so who are they to complain?
The issue, as was on track anyway, is with bad schools with bad students, racking up debt their degrees will never pay for.
My wife was an active RN for most of her adult life.
She needed a watch with a second hand for a lot of office pre and post stuff. Her dress watches last forever, her office watches lasted maybe a year.
I got her a gold Seiko with a readable face and a second hand. It lasted 10 years, and she still uses it.
One of the “pastors” at our church is a college professor. He was instrumental in the invention of a cancer drug. Research is a huge part of universities.
I got a Citizen Eco-drive watch as a gift two years ago. Very sharp looking. Love the fact that it runs on light. It is also never wrong because its radio controlled. When I go between time zones, it automatically sets to the correct time. I still wear my Kinetic too, about 60% of the time.
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