Posted on 05/24/2016 8:20:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
At the end of course, their grades are based on what they have done on their exams. It is up to the student if they pass or fail.
To solve the education problem we need to get rid of teachers with degrees in education. Make every teacher have a real academic degree.
The fact that you already provide study sessions shows you are a step above.
There are many problems with higher education in this country.
I think the first step to fix these problems is to hold the professors accountable for their work. I know of no other business (and it is a business) where the customers are blamed for receiving a shoddy product. The students are customers. If a professor is incapable of teaching a student (who has met the prerequisites) than the professor should not take the money from the student.
Again, I commend you on your efforts and I wish you well.
This from the 1987 book “The Closing of the American Mind”, by Allan Bloom
From the Introduction starting on page 25;
“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every
student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is
relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the students’
reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the
proposition as not self-evident astonishes them, as though he were calling
into question 2 + 2 = 4 . These are things you don’t think about. The
students’ backgrounds are as various as America can provide. Some are
religious, some atheists; some are to the Left, some to the Right; some
intend to be scientists, some humanists or professionals or businessmen;
some are poor, some rich. They are unified only in their relativism and
in their allegiance to equality. And the two are related in a moral intention.
The relativity of truth is not a theoretical insight but a moral
postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it. They have all
been equipped with this framework early on, and it is the modern replacement
for the inalienable natural rights that used to be the traditional
American grounds for a free society.”
Snip
“The danger they have been taught to fear from
absolutism is not error but intolerance. Relativism is necessary to openness; and this is the virtue, the only virtue, which all primary education
for more than fifty years has dedicated itself to inculcating. Openness—
and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of
various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings
—is the great insight of our times. The true believer is the real danger.
The study of history and of culture teaches that all the world was mad
in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to wars,
persecutions, slavery, xenophobia, racism, and chauvinism. The point is
not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think
you are right at all.”
snip.
There’s so much more.
You can download the entire Book (PDF) here;
We have taught our students and now these parents are teaching their kids about the new virtues to live by.
Openness, So-called Tolerance, Truth is subjective, Relativism in all its forms, Being Non-Judgmental and the list goes on and on.
The Left/Progressives of today, whether they know it or not, promote willful ignorance and uncertainty as a virtue. After all, to be certain about something is a truth claim and is judgemental and should not be advanced ahead of any other truth claim.
Our educational system has been indoctrinating our kids for over 70 years and I believe we have reached the tipping point. Our American culture has been lost. Our Media, Businesses, Public and Private Institutions, Government entities both Federal, State and Local have bought into this insanity to such an extent that they don’t even know any difference. It’s not like they are making a reasoned and thoughtful decision about which position to take on any given issue. It has become their worldview, the foundations of their belief system.
And now we have this insanity being forced upon us by our own government with laws, regulations, threats and fines for non-compliance. Forced upon both individuals and businesses with political correctness and well organized boycotts.
But, I will say it again. They don’t know what they are doing. They don’t know anything else. They advance this worldview without any critical thought. They are on auto-pilot and they have reached critical mass.
Ever thought that Conservatives and Liberals live in two different realities?
See above.
Ever wonder why Liberals seem to be completely immune to their own hypocrisy?
See above.
Ever thought that Liberals and Logic don’t seem to go together?
See above.
Do you recall the axiom”: (I first read here on FreeRepublic, BTW)
“Conservatives hate it when you lie to them, Liberals hate it when you tell the truth”
See above.
“Way more than 1/2 of American students are below average.....”
That’s a math joke, isn’t it? Math makes my head hurt.
“Way too many teachers are the kids who loved being in school and entered the profession so they could stay in a Peter Pan world.”
That’s the money comment right there. Well done sir.
That has very much been my observation since high school. Putting my daughter through school only reinforced the notion.
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