Posted on 12/22/2010 1:18:25 PM PST by brucek43
Complacent conservatives not only have allowed our primary and secondary school systems to descend into the pits of liberal philosophies, but we have kept silent while our American colleges and universities wallow in mediocrity. “They [students] are not being given meaningful instruction, regarding the responsibilities of citizens, and they are certainly not being taught the benefits of moral restraint,” (p. 213) says author Jim Nelson Black in his outstanding book, “Freefall of the American University; How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation.”
As parents and grandparents struggle to get enough tuition dollars together, we watch edifices of higher learning charge students $900 a semester for books full of liberal pap, multiculturalism and destructive political correctness, especially in the soft subjects known as Liberal Arts. We only have to watch a few segments of “Girls Gone Wild” to...Continue Reading.
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It start4ed out the door in the ‘60’s, left in the ‘70’s and has been gone since the ‘80’s. We watched and bitched but didn’t stop it. Now it’s gone.
Some folks think that these people are cherry picked .. which may be true but if you ever watched or heard Hannity's Man On The Street interviews (usually around election times) You Know that we are in Serious trouble in this country!
At one time, college was only for the best and the brightest. Now, ANYONE can be a “college grad” if they can find a way to bilk somebody out of the money needed to buy one.
I often hear people say, “Everyone should go to college.” And this statement seems to never get challenged, despite the blatant stupidity of it. No, everyone should not go to college any more than everyone should go to a trade school. Anything that “everyone” does or has gets devalued.
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