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To: IronJack

All true. It is a disgrace that so many of our otherwise fine universities are failing to teach our children the facts of life - especially when they are at such an impressionable age, living away from home for the first time.


17 posted on 12/18/2005 1:11:13 PM PST by gwb2OO4
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To: gwb2OO4
It is a disgrace that so many of our otherwise fine universities are failing to teach our children the facts of life - especially when they are at such an impressionable age, living away from home for the first time.

Here's an alternative perspective:

The first two years at university are guided by the influence of parenting, not the student's evolving mores or the stewardship of the institution.

Those who endured and prospered learned two critical survival skills at home; faith in their own judgment and the difference between right and wrong. Those who failed because they were thrown into unsupervised responsibilities, failed because they lacked a reliable compass and sought the approval of their peers.

The greater institutional failure is a failure to acknowledge the lack of disciple evidenced by a candidate, striving instead to use admission policies as a tool for social engineering. Promotion for social betterment at the secondary level is one thing. At the post secondary level it is simply a squandering of the public treasury. Most preferential admissions find careers in the public sector, perpetuating the public policies that got them there and leveling the whole society downward.

18 posted on 12/18/2005 6:15:55 PM PST by Amerigomag
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