[satchmodog9]

I'm sure the indoctrination centers will never really go away. College was a great experience even though I fought with my professors for four years.

[Codename - Ron Benjamin]

What, fighting with professors isn't what college is really about?

[Leo Carpathian]

Student years are the wonderful, care free years, formatting the young people. Socialist crap and outrageous tuitions will make people think how to learn and spend their money. Looking back, I can see that about 80% of stuff learned at schools I never used, about 80% of stuff I used in life and making livelihood was learned on the go. People will mature and use technology to prepare for life, liberals will flock to alma mater's for indoctrination on feel good, non-realities and "learning" binge drinking. We are in for some changes and soon. Technology will help to bypass liberal indoctrination.

[HIDEK6]

College was a great experience even though I fought with my professors for four years.

I thought college sucked worse than the Army.

That was because I actually learned something in the Army.

[Nip]

The author missed one of the most important parts of the issue - the bulk of the teachers in most colleges and universities have no practical experience - none - zero - nada - zip.

They are very good when it comes to theory - hence their predilection to communism, socialism, and liberalism. But they are very short on facts. Who should be teaching business in college? A businessman who has run a successful company or a student? What about advanced medicine? Engineering?

Notice I called the professors by their correct name - student. They were students for 16 to 22 years well insulated from the problems of life by their parents first, then the world of academia (through fellowships, grants, loans, teaching assistance, etc).

I have two uncles that are about ten years apart and they are as different as night is to day. The older never went to college and he is a very practical and conservative person. His brother is a tenured college professor teaching at Forham who is extremely liberal almost up to the cool-aid drinking class. The fireworks between the two is awesome and very interesting (dare I say instructive?) to watch.

[CIB-173RDABN]

On a related subject, the company I work for recently sent me a DVD. It was a video of a lecture on a technical lecture given to a group of technicains at the home office.

It was great. I got all the same information that those attending got, plus I was able to watch it several times, as well as go back over parts I was having trouble with.

And before you ask, at the end of the DVD was an email address of the instructor in case there were questions. I wrote and got a reply within a few hours.

I would much prefer taking these type of classes at my own pace as well as have them available for reference.

I am looking forward to more such classes.