Posted on 01/06/2012 2:29:42 PM PST by SteelToe
Economics Professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Florida had his sophomore students write a short essay on what the American dream means to them and what, specifically, they wanted the federal government to do to help them achieve that dream.
The results demonstrate the sheer magnitude of the idiocy of a public education system dead set on indoctrination rather than education:
I took the essays from three classes – about 180 students…
About 10% of the students said they wanted the government to leave them alone and not tax them too much and let them regulate their own lives.
But over 80% of the students said that the American dream to them meant a job, a house, and plenty of money for retirement and vacations and things like this. When it came to the part about the federal government, eight out of ten students said they wanted free health care, they wanted the government to pay for their tuition, they wanted the government to pay for the down payment on their house, they expected the government to, quote, “give them a job.” Many of them said they wanted the government to tax wealthier individuals so that they would have an opportunity to have a better life.
The following is an excerpt from one of the non-sensical essays written by a student of Professor Chambless:
“As human beings, we are not really responsible for our own acts, and so we need government to control those who don’t care about others.”
One could understand the naivete of such responses from elementary or high school students, but we’re talking about adults of legal voting age, the majority of who have no concept of individual liberty and personal responsibility.
These young adults are the future of our nation and in the nearly twenty years they have attended school they have learned only one way to achieve the American dream: to plunder it from others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lsi2MFapwNw
Oyvey.
No kidding... ??
I thought that college was supposed to teach people how to think ... not regurgitate socialistic rhetoric ?
You are right !! We are doomed ,... or rather , they are going to be sorely disappointed !!
” About 10% of the students said they wanted the government to leave them alone and not tax them too much and let them regulate their own lives. “
I wouldn’t have guessed this number would have been as high as ten percent — a tiny glimmer of hope....
One could understand the naivete of such responses from elementary or high school students, but we’re talking about adults of legal voting age, the majority of who have no concept of individual liberty and personal responsibility.
These young adults are the future of our nation and in the nearly twenty years they have attended school they have learned only one way to achieve the American dream: to plunder it from others.
There may something to those eco-nuts who want to reduce the population by 90%...
Regards,
GtG
The dumbist warm blooded animals on earth are college students.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Did they get a passing grade?
Indeed. Considering that most of the remaining 80% will become leeches whose only concern will be to eat, sleep, and worry about what's on TV tonight, the thoughtful 10% will actually have influence far above their numbers.
“Many of them said they wanted the government to tax wealthier individuals so that they would have an opportunity to have a better life.”
The kids’ rainbow and unicorn world will come crashing down after they start working and see how much money is stolen at the point of a gun and given to fat, lazy slobs who refuse to work, which includes pig bureaucrats. Then they’ll realize that the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington considers THEM the wealthy.
The idiot left-wing elites in Washington are too stupid to realize that they are creating a massive army of anti-Marxist reactionaries who will kill them.
A passing grade? Are you kidding? Professors who don’t pass their students are soon ex-Professors.
Dumbist? DUMBIST? What are you -- a college student?
Hint: Always check your spelling/grammar when mocking the intelligence of other people.
Barack Hussein Soetoro 0dinga Dunham Whatever 0bama is a "dumbist".
Re post 8: “Ineptocracy” — nicely done daffynition. Ain’t it the sad truth.
I be in college once.
Thank you for posting.
Eye wint too colij too.
I just posted that as my facebook status. Thank you!
He had sophomores who could write essays?
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