Posted on 02/04/2016 5:25:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Edited on 02/04/2016 6:19:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes and censorship have to do with higher learning?
American universities want it both ways. They expect unquestioned subsidized support from the public, but also to operate in a way impossible for anyone else.
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He lays it out precisely. I would love to be in his classes.
Grades are inflated so that 70% of the people fit in the top 30%. Go figure that out, that’s common core math.
Teaching for the most part has become the career path mainly for liberal flunkies. God bless the few that are in it for the students and the love of teaching.
Stop giving federal dollars for a 4 year cycle and let the system eat its own.
The dumbing-down of America is not an accident.
Why do you think slave owners refused to let their slaves become educated?
I relate this story of mine from 2011. I had to fly into a southern airport late one night, and walked into the car rental shop. The manager was the only person left there...so we were doing the paperwork and chatting for a few minutes.
She was early 20’s....college graduate (four years)....minority....and the manager. It struck me as odd. Ten years prior....the typical manager of a medium-sized airport car rental shop would have been some guy in his 50’s....no college degree (just high school education)....maybe four years in the military.
I asked this gal about career progression. She just looked at me....this was mostly it unless she got picked up for regional and likely to never happen. Pay was the same level as the high-school graduate guy from a decade ago. She owed $30,000 on student loans.
On the positive side....she’s got a job and at least paying bills and her loan. On the negative side....there’s nothing much about the job that required a college degree. I look across at hundreds of thousands of jobs like that....where higher education really doesn’t mean much for the job. In some ways, we’ve invented a new society with fake credentials and puffed people up enough to feel they are smarter...when they aren’t.
It has been declining for some 100 years, why get excited now?
I think that a big part of the problem might be due to the very thing that made America great. Historically, Americans have had something of a “Calvinist” attitude, believing in hard work, and getting the job done. That led to the oft used meme, “those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
This has resulted in the creation of “schools of education,” which are havens for miscreants and morons, people who couldn’t make it doing productive things. Of course, many wonderful people are FORCED to go through these schools, in order to become wonderful teachers in the real world. But far more graduate who don’t know what they teach, and/or are completely unable to pass on any sort of information as educators.
Universities, once hot-beds of “revolutionary thought,” these leftist students never left the universities, and eventually went on to teach, and even run them. And now, even convicted terrorists are welcome as “professors” on campuses.
It doesn’t bode well for the future, but unfortunately, it might have been partly caused by Americans’ wish to perform and succeed.
Mark
declining since 1916? You can’t be serious
I mean, I don’t disagree that is has been declining, but certainly not since 1916, more like since the the late 1960s
“Leftist students never left the classroom”
No, it is worse than that. Look at the “Professor” or whatever. He/She entered the classroom at age FIVE and to date has never stepped out of the classroom.
They have exactly NO experience in and knowledge of the real, true world, but believe they are the smartest people in the world. If dependent on their own “skills” and “ability” they would starve.
These are the people who look down upon the grease covered auto mechanic who just repaired the brakes on their car, giving them good odds on reaching their destination safely.
So when you were in high school, how was your Greek and Latin? Leave school fluent in more than 3 languages, were you? Loved your Philosophy classes did you? The Advanced Math and Statistics classes were really exciting, weren’t they? All once part of the usual humdrum curriculum in the 19th century. I was being kind about the early 20th. Today’s educational system is educational only in name ... more like advanced babysitting.
Ya, sort of what I was thinking. I would say it started during the 60s and has been in steady decline since.
Thanks in advance
1916 is probably as good a start date as any -- right in the middle of the "Progressive" Era when the baleful ideas of Dewey that replaced the real education needed for citizenship with training for jobs came into vogue.
That’s because employers are no longer allowed to test applicants for intelligence. As a result they hire college grads for high schooligans jobs.
VDH always a good read.
That was the Griggs vs Duke Power Co. decision.
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