Life and the modern world changed, Academia did not, it remained fixed at 1965 with additions of Politically Correct faculties that are worthless.
Academia is a business but it lost it's way during the Vietnam war. Instead of preparing youth for tomorrow, it prepared youth to automatically rebel and tear down the very freedoms Academia is supposed to support.
Instead of training the elite and working class strata for employment in a manufacturing country, America became a giant WalMart and Kim Kadishan idol worshiping nation. Now many students see themselves as the Elite.
The hard won Judeo-Christian Protestant work ethic has crumbled.
As a Professor of mine at Michigan once said, “getting an undergraduate degree does not assume that you KNOW anything, but it does assume that you now know how to ask the RIGHT questions”.
Now, I am not even sure that hold true.
The Judeo-Christian Protestant work ethic, by whatever name, can never crumble, because it is simple physics. It can only be abandoned.
Now, I am not even sure that hold true.
Excuse me, don't excuse me, but this was always BS in the first place.
Vietnam changed the landscape of colleges because they attracted many people concerned with avoiding military service instead of being interested in an education; I don’t think the frat boys of today understand that when they try to replicate “Animal House”. The dean makes it clear that once he expels them that he’ll alert their draft boards.
Today many colleges that expanded during the Vietnam War to accommodate the large number of students are facing enrollment problems so they offer High School Part II and/or market themselves to foreigners to fill the seats...