The spirit that invaded higher education is Neocommunism, not Neoliberalism.
This is true, but not because of the theory behind general education, but rather because of the Marxist/green indoctrination instead of instruction in these courses under the present prog faculty.
The purpose of a bachelor's program was, and still should be but isn't, to produce an educated person: someone who, more than having a career skill, is capable of becoming a moral and societal leader. The bulk of college programs, those outside of STEM, medicine, and the law, no longer provide either, which is why most college money is wasted.
Nevertheless, there are still a few of us who take our roles as gen ed profs seriously. When I teach music to nursing students, I am trying to help them understand the heights and depths that can be reached through quality music, and how that can be integrated, not only in their personal lives but in their medical careers as well. My students leave my course not just as nurses but as educated persons, able both to work in the hospital and grow in the concert hall, so that their human lives are worth living. When college gets back to those roots, it will, to coin a phrase, make college great again.
It’s not a poltergeist. It is powers and principalities and rulers of darkness in high places.
We need to use the appropriate weapons in tearing down their strongholds.
Neo subversives.
I went to college to learn. I worked through college and never was able to participate in the little party BS and amenities offered. Never had time.
I look back on college and barely made friends. Never got stoned and I guess I missed it?
Interesting that people actually pay for the right to be brainwashed in colleges to get little out of it even though taxes paid for it starting in grammar school with things like third grade sexual orientation. Welcome to liberal education. And don’t forget to close the door to the corral when you come in, sheep.
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Communism. That’s the problem in so-called “academia.”
It is infested with pinkos and perverts.
Communism. That’s the problem in so-called “academia.”
It is infested with pinkos and perverts.
There now exists successive generations of academics in the humanities that are philosophical post modernist Marxists. Critical thinking? Explain to me how they can hold two contradictory philosophies at the same time.
There is a place for humanities or better stated, classical liberal arts. That produces actual critical thinking, not critical theory. They foster the ability to write and articulate. When you combine the ability to think, write and speak with something tangible such as science, engineering and business then you an unstoppable combination in life.
Most of the diversity, inclusion, equity (DIE) academics are so ill prepared for the real world that they can only infest colleges and universities, or become baristas at Starbucks.
The Woke aren’t any sort of liberals ... they’re un-American commie trash.
The whole of the academia is entirely devoted to teaching the youth that everything must be viewed through the lens of race, class and gender and nothing else.
Marxism is what has taken over higher education.
What the Leftists mean is that universities run themselves like a corporation. And that much is true. But not like a free-market corporation, but rather a fascist corporation. The universities strive for constant, endless, pointless growth, in the same manner that they see the corporations that neoliberalism defends. Hence, they see this poltergeist as “neoliberal.” That they identify growth-seeking with “neoliberalism” is typical of communists who, in the face of corruption, identify greed and lust for power with capitalism. Hence, in Russia, there were never any “bad communists,” there were only capitalist infiltraitors and counter-revolutionaries.
Universities have always depended on the largesse of the larger society. A healthy university recognizes that dependence, is grateful for it, and feels its own esteem through it. “I know I am lovable, because I am loved.” When they do not feel their own self worth, they despise their benefactors for not recognizing their supposed superiority. As they lusted for power, universities have replaced liberal-arts traditions with politically liberal indoctrination. They now fail their general mission, and those who would support their general mission no longer have an appreciation for it. Now, their benefactors give because not in the pursuit of knowledge, but either because they want a highly-skilled workforce (neoliberals) or because they want to support the corrupting socialism/deconstructionism of the universities.