Posted on 08/05/2006 12:36:03 PM PDT by chasio649
Colleges and universities will start their fall semester soon. You might be interested in what parents' and taxpayers' money is going for at far too many "institutions of higher learning."
At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a mandatory course for some freshmen is "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie." It's a course where Professor Elizabeth J. Chin explores ways in "which scientific racism has been put to use in the making of Barbie [and] to an interpretation of the film 'The Matrix' as a Marxist critique of capitalism." Johns Hopkins University students can enroll in a course called "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll in Ancient Egypt." Part of the course includes slide shows of women in ancient Egypt "vomiting on each other," "having intercourse" and "fixing their hair."
Harvard University students can take "Marxist Concepts of Racism," which examines "the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality." You can bet there's no mention of the genocide in Africa and former communist regimes like Yugoslavia. Young America's Foundation and Accuracy in Academia publish lists of courses like these, at many other colleges, that are nothing less than student indoctrination through academic dishonesty.
Parents are paying an average tuition of $21,000, and at some colleges over $40,000, to have their children exposed to anti-Americanism and academic nonsense. According to a 2000 American Council of Trustees and Alumni study, "Losing America's Memory: Historical Illiteracy in the 21st Century," not one of the top 50 colleges and universities today requires American history of its graduates.
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So very true. Neither US history nor US government were required at my "top 20" undergrad. Nor was an econonomics class. Nor was Wesetern Civ. Granted, these would fulfill distribution requirements, but all the same...
(and see these policies in action) to question what
And I'm sure that they'd be filled with lectures on tolerance, diversity, and speaking out against hegemony (*rolls eyes*).
I went into college pretty naive, growing up in a very small town, reading way too many 19th-century novels, and moving to a major city. I expected some degree of propriety, civility, and pride in country when I went to a top school. eh, no. I turned into a lefty for a few years before I began to learn enough about what I was being taught, at which point I and a few other friends became royal pains in the neck for liberal crowd.
Our universities are in shambles now. This all began in the 1950s when secularists started shoving their way into academia and religious colleges began secualarizing.
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Emory, Duke... all schools founded on religious principles. The flock hath strayed...
Getting an eduaction from a major university has been and always will be one of the major dissappointments of my life.
And yet it takes most undergrads 5 years to complete their degree. Why do you suppose that is?
No American History or American Government required in US Universities.
Students, lacking critical thinking abilites, sop up leftist doctrine spouted out by their professors, who still live in the 1960s. To these students, socialism "sounds" good. Everyone is "equal" right? They then vote for leftist candidates like Kerry, Clinton et al.
This country better turn things around...and fast!
Back in the sixties, I couldn't wait to be done with high school so I could attend college and get some education at last. Before I could do that, I met college going in the opposite direction.
It's probably down to junior high school level standards by now.
Grapeape, you're right on the money! As a former university prof I can assure you that in my lifetime universities (faculties and students both) have gone from the age of gold to the age of lead.
I won't get started, you've already said it all in your post.
There aren't many alternatives to the leftist lunatic colleges, but some exist. Here's one:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/
Too much college, not enough high school.
How about a few more commas also?
Coming from a dumb costruction worker. ;)
Smile. It was sarcasm.
This is an excellent commentary by Walter Williams.
Where did you get your undergrad. degree, if you don't mind me asking?
what's a costruction worker? just asking? ;)
The Marxist notion of "re-distribution of wealth" appeals to broke college students who don't pay taxes, eat Top Ramen for dinner every night, drink PBR and smoke crappy Mexican ditch-weed.
When they graduate and get a real job, their "progressive" attitudes tend to change the first time they glance at their pay stub.
Yes, they do overwhelmingly support liberal causes at the polls but fortunately, far too many of them can't put down their bongs long enough to show up on election day and make a significant impact.
I can see why.
Sorry, it just seemed too funny. I couldn't walk away from that one. I fat finger the keyboard all the time also. :)
Emory University. There are very few "required" classes, actually. We were simply required to take distribution classes in a number of fields (which usually took about 2 years of your coursework to complete) and given a degree of latitude as to what we chose.
Granted, I this freedom allowed me to major in Art History and English AND complete the pre-medical requirements, but I really think that US History or Western Civ should be mandatory classes.
I liked the flexibility, as it allowed me to explore everything from biochemistry to Jewish theology to Gothic art to economic theory, but I'm of the opinion that everyone should be exposed to at least one of those two previously mentionede courses.
A guy who's strong enough to lift heavy objects, in the building of large objects, but too stupid to do simple spelling.
HEY! Does anybody have a clean rag? I gotta wipe this egg off my face. :)
LOL
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