“P.S. I was in a checkout line the other night and the clerk noticed .... went on to how they talk about MB in Rock and Roll class at the local college.”
With that kind of “education”, this man is now qualified to ... continue to be a clerk.
The Liberal Arts is dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Killed by the post-modernist Left. No matter. The University is becoming obsolete anyway. The Liberal Arts originally representing knowledge of the high Middle Ages. As time progressed, science and the ‘humanities’ became more distinct, the latter becoming, since the time of Buckley’s ‘God and Man at Yale’, a cesspool of cultural antagonism towards freedom, civility, and traditional mores. In other words, the left ruined it.
All those classics that the University refuses to teach while they are teaching good time rock-n-roll? You can get them all in the Gutenberg project files - for free. consider the possibility that literally thousands of textbooks are now available for free via bitTorrent, and hours of lecture are becoming more available over time, for free. It’s a bizarro world where the product sold by elite universities is substantively cr*p, but the ‘prestige’ goes far beyond the reality now.
Want to learn something? The last place to look would be a University or College; on the internet is any useful or useless fact you can to pick up. Want to pick up knowledge? There is no ‘knowledge’ in the hollowed out shell of the post-modernist humanities, just a jumble of incoherent and false marxist dialectis mixed with ‘decontructivist’ attacks on the concept of knowledge itself. The University is now fully close-minded to all the core cultural values that sustain our civilization.
Chuck Norris is right. unless you are seeking the specific professional skill education to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer, or unless you are studying science or math, you will not get much of value from the university. If you buy a humanities education in all but a few select schools , you are simply funding marxist professors to rant and propagandize. find a way to get a basic ‘core curriculum’ on the cheap, via internet-based distance learning, and save the $100,000 and give it to your kid to start a business.
He's a clean cut, articulate guy, I neglected to ask his area of study, so I can't comment on his future. But he didn't strike me as the pants down around the butt type, going home and smoking.. whatever, and smacking around his ho.
And while it was funny at the time, I can see some study of pop culture being relevant. And as loath as I am to admit it; the golden era of rock and roll did have a profound impact (for good and bad) on history, and here's the part I loath; that era is far enough back to be considered history today.
Thankfully, it is not yet "ancient" history.
But you're right, I'd like to see more of the classics taught. After all, our founders were classically educated, and it would seem to me that having a good understanding of the world that came before, will help us to keep the world we have built.