Posted on 03/06/2019 10:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is no "scholarship" in those "disciplines." The studies are fabricated to entice stupid people to enroll purely to get a look at their money. That is the academia of today.
The Journal if Irreproducible Result....best journal ever
Academia is now where ideologues and other useless parasites go to hide from the real world and make a living.
Like many problems in the USA, I believe it has gone to an extreme because the ability to maintain and grow the ridiculous status quo with massive government spending and massive student debt.
If/when America’s debt bubble bursts, one silver lining will be a forced, greatly reduced spending on useless academia and a badly needed rationalization of the entire sector
Nonsense like this produces people like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who are turned loose upon society. Bad things ensue.
I think higher education should be directly tied to apprentice programs right from the start. And when I say “apprentice” I mean a period of paid employment. This is not an unpaid internship.
People going into engineering, or medicine, or business should not have a huge problem finding an apprentice program that can supplement their on-going college education.
Gender studies? English? Anthropology? Hey, if you can find someone who will pay you to actually work in those fields, that’s just swell — carry on with your 4-year college education! But I would expect those useless majors to mostly dry up as people realize that they are not real fields of endeavor. Go major in coffee pouring and line up an apprenticeship at Starbucks.
Feminist, White-hate and queer studies are all full of unintelligible babblings. No wonder they didn’t pick up on the hoax.
“The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what’s taught at colleges today.”
It’s way beyond stupidity ....it’s evil.
The Joe Ortons of the academic field!
This is art not science. This is an absurdist art movement where the researcher is the star for pushing boundaries, for being subversive to the authoritative narrative, for having courage to “stand up to the man.” The artist view is an inane/insane view, but a view that needs a voice in the hegemony of capitalism. (cough, cough)
It’s ART, mental constructs and rebellion. But the unspoken fish in the ointment is that it’s really about MONEY. Every democrat’s secret or not so secret obsession. Yes, that bourgeois thing called money, the shadow they fully want to embrace. You take away their money you take away everything. Dangle money in front of them and ask for the fashionable nonsense to disappear and, magically, it will.
They will hate you, but love your money all the more.
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Academicians. Let them grow up to be plumbers, cowboys and welders.
Some. Where does the non-for-profit education go? Maybe these journals are run by people who mean to turn good fields into worthless fields of endeavor. BTW, modern education is focused on the pragmatic result$ of education (Carnegie etc.) The result?> Kids can't read.
Sad thing though, necessary fields such as language, literature, history, and philosophy are discredited. You can't do politics without them. Plumbers, carpenters, car mechanics better be smart enough to know how to understand and keep a complex free constitutional society.
Those interested should pull up Jordan Peterson’s interview of Boghossian et al. It is extreme hilarious and profoundly depressing at the same time. Available on YouTube.
As an undergrad, my only professional ambition was to go to grad school, get my PhD in History and live my days as a college professor.
That dream died when I got married my junior year and my wife had our first child just before I graduated.
I was all set to take the GRE and choose a school, but decided I didn’t want to put my new family through the rigors of 3 years of grad school.
I used my degree to get a good job, but always regretted not pursuing my dream of teaching at the college level.
But, watching the freakshow American academia has become, and realizing I would be in the middle of it, maybe it was Providence that intervened those many years ago.
Sad, indeed, to see those fields denigrated. They're ancillary to the production of a well-rounded individual, indispensable to a free society.
Well, all ruminations are basically pie-in-the-sky, but ...
If we could re-invent education for those under the age of 18, we could have an broad educated class who could maintain the republic. Kids used to graduate from High School with an ability to read good books, do math, balance a checkbook, know history, and with an ability to find out more information as needed. I think we lost that a while ago.
Except for real specialists, college should not have to teach anyone that sort of thing. Here, I stretch way back to when college was largely about creating the clergy. The number of ministers needed is generally small — and not many people went to college. Lawyers usually didn’t go to college (Lincoln didn’t). Apart from the clergy, college was something for the idle rich. Then it broadened to include “everyone”. There is no need for that.
A small class of people highly skilled in arts of rhetoric and whatnot could be produced by higher education. Beyond that, I think all real jobs need an apprenticeship more than a college degree. And if high schools did what they are meant to do, anybody you see at the supermarket should have some ability to identify parallels between the current Speaker of the House as some appropriate character from Shakespeare or Russian literature. It really isn’t hard to “literate” — but our society just sabotages such things.
Any parent who sends their child to a university in the US is taking a huge risk.
That’s a pretty good write-up. Thanks for taking the time to do so.
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