Posted on 02/22/2021 4:33:53 AM PST by gattaca
Conservatives need to create 'our own America inside of America,' famed producer says.
Dinesh D'Souza is proposing an alternative online university system with $5,000 yearly tuition, saying it could crush liberals' hold over higher education.
The famed producer and author told the John Solomon Reports podcast this weekend that the new college system should be part of conservatives' effort to defeat cancel culture and censorship by building their own educational and entertainment infrastructures.
"With regard to digital media and media generally – I mean we have to build our own platform. So I'm very much in the camp that says that at least in the short term, we need to build an alternative educational infrastructure, entertainment infrastructure, we need our own comedians, we really need the whole thing," D'Sousa said.
"We need our own America inside of America," he added.
He said a top-notch online education system was key to the whole infrastructure.
"We basically need one online university that has assembled together, the 100 top teachers and scholars in the world that will offer a Harvard level education for $5,000 a year. If you did that, you would make all of higher education obsolete overnight. I mean, the universities wouldn't go away, but it was kind of like when the iPhone first came out, suddenly, all other phones were obsolete. We can do that for education, we can do that for media, you just have to make the right moves."
D'Souza discussed the logistics of starting these new infrastructures.
"I think that the money is there and the will exists to do it. It's just that our side is very erratic and there hasn't been the creativity on the supply side to create these things. I mean, just think, for example, of the amount of creativity it took for Roger Ailes to go to Rupert Murdoch and just say, 'Listen, you know, all these cable channels are fighting for half the country. Geez, why don't we start one, make it a real thing, we'll offer a rival point of view, we'll take the other half of the country.'"
"It's so simple," D'Souza continued, "I mean, for decades before that, you know, all we did - our side did was, you know, complain about media, document the media bias. 'Oh, it's all so biased. We're going to give the bias award to you know' - who cares? Do your own thing and build your own, you know, mousetrap, and that's really what Roger Ailes did. And that's been my model for the world of documentaries and even feature films in Hollywood. That should be the model for education. That should be the model for everything."
There have been various alternative educational institutions established in recent years to try and change the tide of higher education. Some of these include places like the Patriot Academy and Wallbuilders, which teach students about America's founding, focus more on the cultural aspect of education.
Cheaper, faster, and more skills-oriented educational institutions that places like University Ventures are investing in pioneer the way for more effective education that helps prepare students for the workplace.
Co-founder and managing director of University Ventures, Ryan Craig, has said that employers are looking for job candidates with technical skills, so his organization invests in what's called "last-mile" training providers that focus on those skills.
One of these "last-mile" training providers, AlwaysHired, "is an immersive tech sales bootcamp for recent graduates who want to gain sales skills and get a job in the tech industry."
Craig is an author of a book entitled "A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College" which discusses the issues with higher education and offers better solutions.
You can already get a world class education watching YouTube videos from MIT, Stanford, Yale and a host other colleges
Well, get going on it, dude. We’re right there with you.
Of course expect the big tech Thought Police who process most of the internet traffic through their servers to shut it down.
If you find the best professors in the country, you can turn them into rockstars with online courses. Pay them like athletes, stick them online and conduct tests at a centralized location.
This wouldn’t work for every subject...but it would for very many of them.
It would put regular “community” colleges out of business. It would be relatively cheap, access could be free, and the world could learn.
But no, let’s push money at an old system.
If ever there was an institution overdue for demolition it’s the worse than useless and hopelessly corrupt American academy.
This is for real, from an accredited institution and ready to go now.
There are a lot of online universities now, and are pretty reasonable. My son uses Liberty (I know about the scandal with Falwell’s son but it has not affected the curriculum or the professors)
The curriculum is conservative and faith based. We have been very happy with it.
Should have been done ten years ago!!!
What a great idea!! I really hope it goes somewhere.
Something has to be done to defeat the Government-Academia Complex.
“Check out SNHU’s new $10,0000 deal opening on campus this fall.”
I got my BS at SNHU and currently finishing up my MBA. It is all on-line and in the years I have been going, no once has a political issue cropped up.
However, the problem with what Souza proposes is the accreditation, which is run by liberal organizations. The first thing on a job description tends to be, “graduated from an accredited college.”
Yes, yes, and yes.
There are indeed a number of other online options; a major new rollout would help publicize the existing options as well as exploit the many possibilities out there for new buyers and sellers in the smarts market. The other thing to play up big in conjunction with this is:
“If you’re telling me that this country should forgive all student loans, you’re telling me that getting a college degree isn’t worth what you were told it was worth.”
And put that statement up against a graph of the growth of the cost of living vs. the growth in the cost of a 4-year degree since 1970.
Would make a lovely billboard, methinks.
My daughter is taking classes at Unbound for her undergraduate work. It’s essentially what Dinesh is suggesting and is extremely affordable.
I’m all in.
Well, yes. As I recall hearing on Bill Bennett’s show some years ago: “the model for classroom teaching as practiced in colleges is now 1000 years old”!.
When I see this kind of stuff I always remember that Abe Lincoln had no formal education and was self taught...beginning with teaching himself to read.
The US spends tons of money on ‘education’, and kids know less with every batch of graduates.
What does that tell us? If you don’t want to learn and won’t apply yourself, no amount of money will get you an education. If you want to learn and you apply yourself, you will succeed despite all/any obstacles
Yes, yes, and yes.
and yes.
Several of my students have done quite a bit of course work on-line including lab science courses. It is not perfect but
a good alternative to being on campus.
Another alternative, on-line courses-then bring in groups of students on campus for two to three weeks of lab courses.
That is being tried and is working in places.
the BIG LEFT will go after anything that is created, just like they do for profit schools and Christian schools who remain “unaccredited” to avoid government interference in what they teach.
The Education Industrial Complex will demonize these efforts and never allow accreditation to delegitimize the education.
Love this idea, love it.
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