Hi Mom, I'm home from Amherst! Can you do some laundry for me?
Posted on 02/06/2007 7:52:15 AM PST by Aquinasfan
So I guess that refers to the kids coming home as conservative Christians.
Hey parents, the joke's on you.
Brainwashing. Antonio Gramsci and John Dewey style.
Bedlam, or Stalinism? Benedict's a genius in realizing that there might be alternatives.
Why no one's thought of it before is simply amazing.
Hi Mom, I'm home from Amherst! Can you do some laundry for me?
Amherst aka Cambridge with trees.
Meet the liberated college woman. You may pity her.
"Unprotected" is a hard slap at the sexual free-for-all that prevails on American campuses and throughout American life. The author, revealed since publication as Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist at the student health service at UCLA, was hesitant to put her name on this book. The orthodoxy within the academic world is a strict one, and those who transgress often pay with their jobs. Let's hope for her sake, but particularly for her patients' well being, that she is not punished for her heterodox views.
When they move too far to the left, you cut their college fund and make them get their own jobs. If they want to play, make them pay for school themselves. Why waste the money?
Never reward an undesirable behavior.
If they behave themselves and remember what you taught them, by all means be supportive.
Yes, they warned us about this when my daughter was preparing to go to college 4 years ago. Fortunately, she's a commuter. Just had breakfast with my husband who is a college professor. He told me that the new required freshman course about getting adjusted and critical thinking (can't remember the name of it) has been changed. Now, to even be allowed to teach it, professors have to take a test of some sort to see if they have the "right attitude" to teach it. This is mandated, apparently, by the textbook company which also provides the test. I met the teacher who taught this course several years ago. As a parent, if I had met him and realized he was going to teach my child such a course, I would reconsider the decision to go there. And this is normally an excellent school. Somehow, I doubt that if conservatives took this attitude test that they would be teaching this course. The battles parents have been having with secondary education has moved to colleges where children are of age and no longer, for the most part, live at home. Beware.
i.e., moral relativism. True "critical thinking," or logic, as it's been known since Aristotle's day, went out the window in the early '60s.
Perhaps I'm being overly paranoid, but two ideas just clicked together for me:
1) I've seen a lot of articles about "helicopter parents" who hover over their children -- even going on job interviews with them! I have found this sad. Parents do their children no favors when they are so "involved".
2) This article, to some extent, says that colleges expect to brainwash children, and urges parents to back off and let the Socialism Machine shape their young minds without interference.
I think I see an effort to separate children from parents. To help the kids be independent? Or to make them part of the machine?
I missed that one. The poor shlub writing the article doesn't know the job that's been done to her head.
Actually, that happens with surprising frequency - though this probably isn't what UMass had in mind.
I see these as two separate phenomena. At least part of the reason for the first is that parents have only one or two children and lots of time and disposable income.
2) This article, to some extent, says that colleges expect to brainwash children, and urges parents to back off and let the Socialism Machine shape their young minds without interference.
It's been this way from the beginning.
The Prussian mind, which carried the day, held a clear idea of what centralized schooling should deliver: 1) Obedient soldiers to the army; 2) Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms; 3) Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function; 4) Well-subordinated clerks for industry; 5) Citizens who thought alike on most issues; 6) National uniformity in thought, word, and deedThen later, the Marxists sought to breakdown the current social order by destroying public morals. A population enslaved to vice is easy to conquer and govern.
Fortunately, she's planning to live at home and commute to Valpo.
And if anyone's going to do any "deconstructing" with regards to my daughter and her welfare, it'll be me.
LESLIE WOLF
CUBETTE REPORTER FOR COLLEGE RAG
Here's another one...yet another reason to bypass colleges.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1777966/posts
These girls are the "empowered" generation. They should stay home and learn some real skills, IMHO.
The thinking is that is that logic or rationality is an aftermath of the Enlightenment or modernism. Oh the horrors! And since there is no such thing as truth, you have to forget facts and concentrate on process and where you as the student fit into it. I was really upset while talking to my husband. He said he's glad it will soon be time to retire. Also, the Middle States certification institution is making them hire a person whose sole responsibility is assessment--making certain that teachers are "assessing" students in such a way that comparisons can be made to all other college students. In a word, standardized tests.
Which is it?
To be stupid is human. To be really stupid requires college.
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