Posted on 03/29/2016 12:58:21 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
I’ve taught in various universities for the past 27 years. Students are now ‘clients’ meaning that if you have a checkbook or promise of one, you’re in...and after attending 5 or 6 years students feel entitled to a degree (regardless, of course, of the quality of their ‘work’).
College today is about what my junior high work was like in the 50s/60s, except we had consequences for poor work back then: you didn’t pass!
I can’t offer a comment on this article until I know where Dr. Williams stands on the subject of Donald Trump.
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Check out the Chancellor of Oxford and Oriel College (Oxford) replies to such foolosiness there.
Would that Harvard and Yale actually had adult leadership.
...and he is brilliant...
“College today is about what my junior high work was like in the 50s/60s”
Pritty dom close, mon!!
The professional students who stay in school for years and then become professors etc, are some of the most ignorant, no-nothing, do nothing individuals I’ve ever met.
I wonder if they know when the War of 1812 was fought? Or do they think Apollo 13 was where Tom Hanks saved the other astronauts? Can they write in cursive? What was the result of the sinking of the ship Lusitania? Can they run a household budget without being overdrawn or using credit card debt? I’d love to write the poll questions.
There is always journalism school for the dumbasses.
I totally agree! Their work effort is by and large abysmal. How some get into college is beyond me. But colleges, especially community colleges will take anything that is breathing and not assumed room temperature.
Having worked in a college library the last twenty years I run across research papers left behind or in some cases left in Word files and have watched the continued and rapid decline in the quality of work these students are presenting to their instructors. It is something to behold!
That is yuge!!!!!!!!!!!
Illiterate can be fixed. Stupid is permanent.......................
I was doing algebra and trig in Jr. high. Now days its ‘college’ level material.........................
The net result of everyone going to college these days is that college standards have been lowered to be what "everyone" can handle. This means that colleges are now teaching things that are supposed to be taught in junior high. I took a look at my nephew's (college freshman) math assignment one day, it looked like something you or I would have done in seventh or eighth grade.
Will someone please tell me whether Dr. Williams is dead to me? Oh, I’m so conflicted!!!
Well said.
That COLLEGES now have courses in remedial math and English .. because the students they admit need these courses ... is beyond depressing.
When my husband lived in Detroit in the ‘50s, they did not allow advancement from grad to grade unless the student passes his coursework. As a consequence, he had fellow students in Jr. High who were 18 and drove beer trucks after school.
My husband was smart, but slight of build in the 7th grade, and sometimes “picked one” by some of the toughies in school. One of the Polish beer truck drivers in my husband’s neighborhood exchanged bodyguard duties for my husband’s help in passing math.
Worked well! LOL.
It is, indeed.
Libtards control education and they adapt a disintegrated mode of thought on purpose to keep the masses ignorant and dependent on government. The disintegrated mode of thought in education consists of expansion and splintering of the curriculum, and the subjects are disconnected and unrelated to each other. This is accompanied by the increasing anti-conceptual movement in most subject areas toward perceptual-level concrete bound learning.
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