Example: why should a non-science major (such as Criminal Justice or Broadcasting) have to take algebra and biology, which he/she will never use in a criminal justice or broadcasting career? Why should anyone but English majors have to take English literature classes? Why should anyone but History majors have to take Western Civilization?
The bullsh*t reasoning of "those classes help develop students into well-rounded citizens" is why college costs so much.
The answer the question of why college is so expensive is that it's expensive to hire all those professors to teach useless, bullsh*t classes which most students will never in their lives use after they graduate.
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“One way to cut down on the cost of college is to stop requiring students to take general education classes that have nothing to do with their majors.
Example: why should a non-science major (such as Criminal Justice or Broadcasting) have to take algebra and biology, which he/she will never use in a criminal justice or broadcasting career? Why should anyone but English majors have to take English literature classes? Why should anyone but History majors have to take Western Civilization?
The bullsh*t reasoning of “those classes help develop students into well-rounded citizens” is why college costs so much.
The answer the question of why college is so expensive is that it’s expensive to hire all those professors to teach useless, bullsh*t classes which most students will never in their lives use after they graduate”
Can I disagree with you on this. The reason those courses appear worthless to you is that they are taught by people sophist (Post-Modernist) You do not defeat sophistry by ignoring it. Education is more than about getting a job.
There is a place for an accountant or engineer to know both national and world history. There is a place in all professions for a basic understanding of ethics, philosophy, economic, psychology, music, aesthetics and literature.
Yes, everyone should understand algebra and calculus because these two types of mathematics explain motion, limits, derivatives and functions. In short, they explain why the universe works the way it does. Additionally algebra and calculus provide the language for developing abstract thought. The issue is that people should have come to an understanding of these in high school.
Why can the democrats count on the vote of so many uneducated people? Because those people do not know how to think for themselves. If you want to see the US become the “Land of the free and home of the Brave” once again then get a job as an adjunct at a community college and teach history. That is how the left has subverted the nations. They taught lies as truth and nobody challenged them.
All of that does not mean that there are not plenty of degree programs that are rather worthless, but getting rid of “X studies” and the like would not significantly lower the cost.
Having people that only understand very narrow field is the sure and fast route to a society of slaves.
It is appropriate in this day and age for conservative to wear the badge of an “Anti-Intellectual” in the sense that we stand against the prevailing memes and doctrines espoused by the leftist intelligentsia. Yes, I am proudly and defiantly anti-intellectual in that sense and I offer my students a truer, better, nobler and more enlightened path; but that is not the same as non-intellectual and to say that broadening course should be simply dropped is a non-intellectual response and there is no place for that in modern conservatism. We are not afraid of the truth.