Posted on 02/03/2013 8:45:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Your kids/students are very lucky to have you.
The standard story is that these are boomer and post-boomer parents who give everybody trophies. Doesn't it go back further than that? Didn't a lot of boomer kids get trophies just for playing from teams set up by their greatest generation parents?
Banks and other biz do due dilligence before extending loans —you can’t get a loan for a stupid pipe-dream.
But SCHOOLS do no such due dilligence —the loans are written without a glance, again and again.
WHY?
Because if a student declares bankruptcy, the debt REMAINS —schools know they can ENSLAVE poor black students studying sociology at Harvard for 6 years.
Why all the cushy treatment for the LIBERAL UNIVERSITY SYSTEM? Aren’t they the ones saying that private biz is just a pack of enslavers taking advantage of young people...? Aren’t THEY the ones saying that the system is rigged...?
Let them live up to their own rhetoric, and let THEM bear a sliver of the debt risk:
Make student debt for Liberal Arts degrees dischargeable via bankruptcy.
The reason for this injustice is because easy credit for dumb young students ensures a steady stream of victims for culture-hating Profs who otherwise have to work in record stores, head shops, or scribbling poetry.
SUBSIDY FOR HYPOCRITICAL, DIRTY LEFTIES.
That’s all true. Also true, though, is one needn’t get his education from college to be a software engineer, firmware engineer, inventor, or a CEO of a successful firm for that matter. I’ve known and worked with many self-taught autodidacts from all of those categories who are gifted and brilliant.
In seems that our kids often mirror image us ;-) I’m have a EE degree - and my son is taking Liberal Arts degree! Didn’t see THAT one coming. His only problem is that he is a total nerd and can’t help it. He LOVES the technical stuff, yet wants to do creative films?
A point most splendidly made. Those who do know the value of work, those who think outside the box, in short, the foxes of society are misunderstood by the socialist sheep. I've long suspected this fissure, and am happy to see more articles like this one.
“Today’s kids are being seduced into thinking that everyone can be the CEO or a top executive.”
Yet there are corporations that have the view that the valid only career goal for a degreed corporate professional is executive or upper management. Such it was at a major engineering firm where I had at one time worked.
The game, however, starts with sales, sales, sales ... a point sorely neglected.
You ain't got sales, you got nothing!
You mean what they used to teach when only the elite went to college?
Good luck with that. You are going to need to be pretty picky about what school she gets into. Most aren't into the big picture stuff anymore, unless it's a picture of Karl Marx.
My thought exactly.
Kid down the street loves to mess with trucks and snowmobiles. Has owned five or six vehicles during just the past year. He just loves machinery that moves.
I doubt anyone in his family has ever attended college, but his folks have worked hard and would really like Dustin to go. What the kid needs is a good apprenticeship in a repair shop.
I'm sure he's comfortable with computers and he's got the knack for machinery. I hope he doesn't try to make his parents happy by doing something that he might not be suited for.
Indeed, I am being picky.
Oh, no, we don’t want the dreaded trades-males starting private sector labor unions again. Our government unions are much better and provide licensed, approved persons to administer this economy without manufacturing. Besides, robots have replaced all of the dreaded trades-males and other working class trash. Better than that, we’ve nearly got our enemies to the point of extermination! Mhuahahahahahahahahaha! Isn’t gatekeeping wonderful! We have complete control...complete control! Mhuahahahahahahahaha!
[Piles of irony and sarcasm there while wringing hands in emulation of the highly educated political/regulator class.]
More sincerely, tough, technically inclined young people will own tomorrow. Begin to treat them well, and they’ll treat you well. But they won’t be your slaves. Slavery is anti-conservative in the American sense. Slavery is more suitably accommodated by the kinds of communist/fascist nations that our business, academic and political leaders are in bed with.
My husband and I are lucky to have them, the way things are going in this country, it looks like they are our back up retirement plan ;)
“There’s nothing wrong with a true liberal arts education.”
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I could not agree more, in fact I think everyone should have it regardless of what kind of training they go after as a way to make a living. The problem is where does one get a liberal arts education now, as opposed to merely getting a degree in liberal arts?
I received a diploma from a public high school in 1962 and went straight into the Navy. I spent my first year after boot camp going to electronics school which was purely technical. In recent years I have noticed that no one seems to use the English language properly except for some of the old folks. The younger ones do not understand pronouns, they use astounding double negative constructions and often seem to think they are saying the exact opposite of what their actual words convey. They are hopelessly lost when attempting to use words like there, their and they’re, your and you’re, its and it’s, the list goes on and on, they use apostrophes for plurals. Most English TEACHERS in our schools now probably could not pass an eighth grade English final from my era.
Don’t even talk about history, I know from conversations within the past ten years that recent graduates of the university a few miles from my home could not pass an eighth grade history final from my era and I am speaking of those who MAJORED in history! No wonder they seem to have no understanding of the nature of our current disaster, they know little or nothing of what has gone before and much of what they think they know is wrong. They have spent years going for “higher education”, they have foregone the income they might have earned during those years and on top of that many if not most have run up major debt to pay for this HEINO (higher education in name only). When someone spends four or more years and huge sums of money to major in history and literally cannot pass a grade school history test from his grandfather’s time what in the world is going on? They are hanging sheepskins without being qualified to even ENTER a REAL post high school educational institution. These young people have been cruelly robbed of opportunity and of the money paid to these worthless diploma mills.
What we need is real K-12 education of the sort that used to be available.
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