Posted on 12/21/2024 6:27:48 AM PST by Rummyfan
The modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilisation.
The Western world has many enemies – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – but none is more potentially lethal than its own education system. From the very institutions once renowned for spreading literacy, the Enlightenment and the means of mastering nature, we now see a deep-seated denial of our common past, pervasive illiteracy and enforced orthodoxy.
The decay of higher education threatens both the civic health and long-term economic prospects of Western liberal civilisation. Once a font of dispassionate research and reasoned discussion, the academy in recent years has more resembled that of the medieval University of Paris, where witch trials were once conducted, except there is now less exposure to the canon.
American universities face an unprecedented challenge with the return of Donald Trump. His administration seems likely to attack such things as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, while pushing to defund programmes favourable to terrorists, expel unruly students and deport those who are in the US illegally. Loss of federal support to universities, the educrats fear, could cause major financial setbacks, even among the Ivies. Like medieval clerics, the rapidly growing ranks of university administrators, deans and tenured faculty have grown used to living in what one writer describes as a ‘modern form of manorialism’, where luxury and leisure come as of right.
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-——China, Russia, Iran, North Korea——
carcasses of near dead economies that must die before they can be resurrected
That's why college debt is being paid off.
Foreign money has to stop flowing into our schools. China and countries like Qatar are destroying them and our youth.
No, those colleges were already paid in full.
Paying of student loans is merely vote buying.
They’ve been rotting for some time now...even in the STEM curriculums.
The communists have done a real fine job destroying America’s education system...from kindergarten to Phd. Like everything else they touch, they destroy. Spit.
For such absurdities to be championed by leaders of American educational institutions reveals their fundamental intellectual and moral stupidity.
President Trump's landslide victory was a proclamation of the American People that the disease of decadence responsible for such dangerous stupidity will no longer be tolerated.
The USA is still ascendant, and Donald Trump is its torchbearer.
Those responsible for America's descent into decadence have revealed their tawdry intellectual, spiritual, and moral mediocrity to all the world and for all time.
We need a complete restructuring of the role the university system plays in this country. For most people, what they learn in college will in no way enhance their performance in the workplace. The degree does nothing of any significance for them. It’s just a waste of time and money. They’d be better off using those four years building skills on the job.
When these university fail by going into bankruptcy, let the conservatives buy them up!
Unfortunately.
And throw out the Marxist trash.
I warn high school students who feel they have to that once they get the card punched and can escape then learning can begin. Mark Twain said, “I was educated once - it took me years to get over it”.
Poison Ivy League schools...
It is all of that, but also a wealth transfer to the banks.
You don't suppose the banks were being made to eat it do you?
I want to know when Elon Musk creates an educational system in Texas to make sure his own kids aren’t wrecked any more than the son he lost to today’s schools.
wrecked any more than the son he lost to today’s schools.
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i think his son is the reason musk decided he was all in with us.
“The Western world has many enemies – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea”
To make the above a bit more accurate: “The Western world has CHOSEN to MAKE many enemies...”
...and then gave them 35 years to build up their militaries, just to be sure we ultimately get wiped out.
Deeply sorry for the son. Extremely grateful for the YUGE win it gave us.
DOGE needs to clean out all these places.It was pretty obvious this year of rioting that it is finished.
TRUMP POLICIES WILL BE VERY INTERESTING.
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