Posted on 07/09/2020 4:20:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 07/09/2020 8:52:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Never let a good crisis go to waste, which in the current crisis means we must use the fact that our universities have shown themselves to be petri dishes swimming with anti-American ideologies, combined with pre-existing trends, to lance this particular cultural boil.
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I agree...100%!!!
Yep. No more government in the student loan biz.
And a steep reduction in grants.
This would be ideal. But we have no leaders who are willing to give it a go and make it so. Nice to dream about, tho.
In conjunction, government schools should be ended. School choice with lots of vocational emphasis for younger people should be made easier. Young people should reach the age of 18 and be ready to go, ready to contribute to society. A small percentage may continue their education for a few specialized fields. But most education after age 18 should just be self-administered. If I care about Norwegian Feminist Dance Theory, I can read up on it in my spare time after I get home from work.
Burn them to the ground and salt the earth. Only have science and engineering and technology learning facilities. The other stuff can be optional,taught in tents.
I agree with all except I think that the Big tax on endowmens should go to pay off student loans. These kids were sold a bill of goods. They need relief.
Yes I know it isn’t fair but it is right.
“These kids were sold a bill of goods.”
Remember a decade ago when dental clinics were opening in malls and looked like barber shops with chairs next to each other? That was because universities had oversold dental degrees. The same is true of law degrees; way to many lawyers. It’s the same with pharmacy. Essentially, colleges turn out “professionals” for whom there are not enough jobs. So, yes. Colleges are costing way too much to turn out graduates for whom there are ever shrinking job prospects. We need to let the market decide what professions are needed and then let people decide whether to go into those professions rather than developing a supply without regard to the market.
True they did the same with pharmacists. Mds are the only ones who keep their supply tight..
Tax the endowments worth over $1 million, end government-subsidized loans - only allow Pell Grants to truly low-income students, and make the schools submit to Constitutional freedoms (free speech, etc.).
Bravo, Kurt! I couldn’t agree more. I remember going to college from 1968-76 and seeing pockets of crazies along the way. I have since observed two things:
1. Students in all of those useless majors like political science, art history, and sociology have now become the teachers and government bureaucrats trying to run (and ruin) our lives, and
2. What were then small groups of campus crazies have completely won the “cultural revolution” and taken over, turning the universities into high temples of the left. They have become the incubators of virtually all of the leftist insanity that we are now seeing in the country.
Figuratively speaking, all of them need to be burned to the ground.
To do a counter revolutionary insurgence will take time. A whole generation of communist agitator profs have to die off. It took time for them to gain the upper hand and it will take time for them to be removed from power. Their positions have to be replaced with new people. It won’t happen quickly but it has to happen consistently, without easing off the pressure.
THIS 100%.
We cant even get our “leaders” to come out and say the violence is B.S, and America is a good country.
No way they will go after the education mafia, they might get called racist or something.
Bump
OK so eliminate the universities. Then what?
Unfortunately, the abysmal state of higher education is built on the poor foundation of public education which graduates students bereft of adequate reading, writing and mathematical skills. Many recent high school graduates going on to college spend a lot of time in remediation. Colleges of education should be abolished; public school teachers hired on the basis of academic dsicipline (political science, history, mathematics, science etc.) as opposed the possession of a “education” degree, merit pay instituted as a feature of teacher compensation; and featues of academic failure/discipinary removal commonplace.
Why is that the universities fault? They’re selling degrees not jobs. Nobody forces you into a major. You can look up job prospects from various sites that tell you how likely a job out of college is.
Again the problem is lazy parents who push their kids to pursue pipe dreams. Without them, most departments (theater, music, art,... working for Pixar) wouldn’t even exist.
The 2020 election is the LAST chance we have to get this turned around. IF, by the grace of God, our side wins in November, one of the highest priorities of a second Trump term should be to start reversing the K-12 and university level political indoctrination of the Left. As some FReepers have already mentioned, such an endeavor will be a tough hill to climb, but the survival of America is at stake. IF the Democrats prevail in 117 days, the America as we knew it is gone forever.
Another strategy to take down academia:
Do not send your child to one of its institutions. Enroll in only online courses (preferably ones offered by more conservative institutions). If the university/college does not offer a full online program, write them and tell them you will seek your child’s education elsewhere. When choosing courses be sure to check professor bio’s and other course offerings. Do not take any classes with professors who offer “woke” courses, gender studies courses, queer studies courses, feminist courses.
This will send several messages:
*You cannot have unfettered access to my child
*You don’t want any part of their academic goo
*You will not provide financial support beyond the classroom
You will have to audit your student’s course work. Any pressure to conform to some liberal “ism” (instead of the promotion of freedom of thought) must be challenged. Perhaps there needs to be a registry of complaints established so that professors can be better monitored.
Kurt nails it.
It is amazing how much political power Academia has in government.
It is a bedrock principle of Progressivism, that Academic Experts should run the country.
Universities have become strongholds of Progressive power.
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