Another "Good Thing" (Thomas Sowell)

Creators Syndicate ^ | June 23, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz.

The Left doesn’t care about the students really. Only that the students are there, and somebody is paying the Union teachers to do something that appears to be educating them.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Even food is not a "good thing" categorically, without limit. We can't live without it but, beyond some point, it causes obesity and shortens our lives.

College degrees are as easy to come by as dollars. The same printing press that can print the one thing, can print the other. But of course the utility of the dollar is precisely in the fact that - historically at least - the dollar has been sufficiently scarce, sufficiently consistently, that it has been worth while for people to strive to obtain dollars by satisfying some need or want in society.

The question is, what is the value to society of studies which produce malcontents? Women's studies and black studies are calculated to do little else, IMHO. They are nothing but "community organizing" and, like Obama's policy program, society is the worse off if they succeed.

[jazusamo]

So true.

This is a little off subject but for the last year or so I’ve noticed a person that comments on articles of all kinds in the local paper with absolute negativity and leftist views.

I finally posted a comment on a veterans article honoring a group that supports military families that lose loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. In my comment I thanked the group and the reporter writing the article then made a comment to an asinine post by the one I referred to.

The commenter that I mentioned never replied to me but several other posters did and it turns out the guy is an economics instructor at the local community college.

After checking him out I find from many and a couple of former students he should be teaching anti-American history instead of econ classes, he has a huge reputation and mostly bad.

Guess he’s prepping community college students to carry on his leftist crap and he’s just a lightweight compared to many professors in larger colleges.