Posted on 10/19/2023 5:55:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Crises clarify what is true, and what is indisputably true during this crisis is that academia, as currently constituted, is a poisonous cancer infecting our society. Like many other institutions, academia has gone from respect to contempt in the eyes of normal people, if not our garbage ruling class. But its latest series of public disgraces may wake up even the most obstinate cheerleaders for pretending that nothing fundamental has changed. And let’s use the opportunity we have been given to eliminate this dinosaur institution. At the top of our conservative agenda must be making it extinct.
It has outlived its usefulness. Among people paying attention, academia's reputation is already in the garbage bin. From political correctness to administrative bloat, from its inability to teach basic concepts, from its greed to its arrogance, those of us who know what time it is already despise it. But these last couple weeks have been clarifying for everyone else. It’s almost beyond the point to go through the litany of the moral illiteracies that idiots in and around academia have demonstrated over the last two weeks. We’ve all seen them cheering on the slaughter and hating the Jews – a lowlight was a Cornell associate professor of history who found the mass rape/murder spree to be “exhilarating.”
His words. Uttered in public. Uttered without shame.
This is what we are paying for, both in cash and cachet.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
They will when the commies complete their takeover.
“Let’s use the opportunity. Let’s not let this crisis in academia go to waste. I propose that conservatives starve academia of money and respect, and thereby gleefully hasten the inevitable creative destruction that would inevitably be underway anyway in order to drive this failed institution to extinction.”
BTTT
I stopped supporting my alma maters. I support colleges who are teaching real world skills. Medical, legal, business, engineering,
STEM prep in all its flavors...Don’t need a megaversity anymore. Law of diminishing returns.
My thoughts exactly.
I think at this point pretty much all our institutions are corrupted. And academia is right up there with the rest of them.
I have nine years of education after high school, including 4 degrees. I have more letters after my name than most of the British aristocracy. However, I have come to realize over time that academic credentials are of questionable value. Oh, yes, if you want to become a doctor, lawyer, or accountant, or something else which requires very specialized academic knowledge, then getting all of those degrees makes sense. But even given that, the cost of education lately is obscene. Even from the standpoint of earning a valued degree in a lucrative profession, like medicine or the law, the cost of the education (and let’s remember that both of those professions require many years of expensive education after college) make it an iffy proposition at best. If you want to become an average non-specialist doctor, you will lose eight years of earnings capacity, and pay many hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus the interest, to obtain that degree. You are starting very significantly behind the eight ball, and then you have to rent an office and buy your equipment. If you work for someone else at first because no bank or family member will (or can) loan you the money to start your own practice, you won’t make much more than what you need to rent an apartment, pay for an average new car and repay your student loans. Not a great life until those loans are paid off, and by then you are probably 36-38 and have a mortgage and other expenses related to that house. Oh, and kids whom you will want to go to college, etc. later on. Welcome to life on a rat wheel. You’re going to work at least until you’re 70, and that’s if your investments do reasonably well, with no 1987 or 2008 experiences shortly before your planned retirement. Meanwhile, I have a cousin who has no education past high school, who became a plumber, and later a master plumber. He’s 64 and has been retired for a year. Nice pension plus Social Security, plus his own savings. He recently moved down south from NYC and now lives in a very relaxed, low-crime, cheap and low tax environment in which to enjoy his life.
Regardless of whether Schlicter gets his wish and academia as we now know it is destroyed in the very near term, or not, academia as we know it is doomed. They are simply pricing themselves out of the market. I expect to see many hundreds of universities close, and many tens of thousands of highly educated morons on the street looking for a job, any job. While I don’t wish that on anyone, I won’t shed any tears for those among them who have radicalized our youth, who have persuaded and cajole them into hating this country, and all of western civilization. Those people can rot for all I care. I will actually feel much more sorry for the maintenance people and cafeteria workers who also lose their jobs. Education has become a parasitical racket, and no parasite can outlive its host. Well, the laws of economics decree that this parasite will be dead before long. Perhaps then education can become what it once was, an opportunity for millions of young people to learn more about the world, much more about specific subjects, and prepare themselves for a reasonably decent-paying career. Until then, I have a little use for this parasite.
Every person and institution should condemn war crimes.
Perhaps moral clauses should be part of academic employment contracts.
Academia is bull$#it. If you are interested in knowledge, that’s what Khan Academy is for. The Leftists took over our universities. That’s a damned shame.
Very well said. Using the M.D. example...I have seen many die long before their retirement
..but that was the old school docs....many of the new ones will last longer but seem to be doing things by the “book” cause they cannot rock the financial boat and supporting institutions they are shackled to.
The culture of death is collapsing.
Yep. Well leveraging the grifters as well.
Very well said! In your case your quality education did not go to waste.
I do remember when colleges actually focused on real world education rather than indoctrination into cultural Marxism.
I’m not sure anyone under 40, maybe even 50, remembers this though.
Simple!
We need a reliable system to certify skill sets.
Even in the sciences most of the information is rote and changes little from year to year. Much is available Online and through very low-cost used books.
Obviously, brick and mortar facilities are needed for laboratory and clinical experience. My associate was a half-million dollars in debt for his education. With a reliable system of certification, his education could have been reduced to $25,000.
A college degree is worthless to an employer. The community and employers need an inexpensive way to certify that a person has mastered the skills he or she claims to possess.
Regarding: The Professions
Please read my post #16.
“The community and employers need an inexpensive way to certify that a person has mastered the skills he or she claims to possess.”
That’s easy enough through internships but it still should start with an aptitude test though those appear to be forbidden in the technical trades.
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