Posted on 01/19/2013 7:53:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I feel the same way even though some of my best friends are lawyers ;)
Celebration?
Education is going to have to take a long look at itself. Probably about 80% of courses don’t need to be taught at a formal setting and can be learned by the student, on his time, with only a qualifying test need to be taken to be eligible for the rest of the courses,
I’m not sure what’s next, but crying about it isn’t it.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
I dunno, but it is a helluva good start in the right direction back to prosperity and competitiveness.
And this a problem how?
My law school had some good tenured professors. Who also had some guys who had not published anything, or bought a new tie or sports coat since they got tenure. Their coats no longer closed over their bellies, but since they got tenure in the 1970s, their 10" wide polyester ties covered up their dress shirts where their coats gaped, giving the illusion that their clothes fit better than they did.
Hmmmmm.... let's see. Perhaps we'll have fewer lawyers...?
Yes, it is. The brand new young lawyers, who were worth a damn, and busted that ass for 12-14 hours 6 days a week made 150K back in 1990. It appears we have folks who refuse to work the hours required to be successful. Sadly, I believe it Gov jobs that teach those GS11-15’s to sit on their ass.
No one likes a lawyer until they need one.
” Perhaps we’ll have fewer lawyers...? “
. . . and pay more if we need their services, naturally.
That’s why they have the “Bar.” To keep their numbers down so they can charge outrageous prices per hour.
A father walks into a bookstore with his young son. The boy is holding a nickel. Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face.
The father realizes the boy has swallowed the nickel and starts panicking, shouting for help.
A well dressed, attractive and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the book store.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy’s testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the nickel, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand. Releasing the boy’s testicles, the woman hands the nickel to the father and walks back to her seat in the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, ‘I’ve never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?’
‘No,’ the woman replied. ‘Divorce attorney.’
Anything that makes life suck for lawyers makes it good for the rest of us.
Sorry, but I really do feel that way. We have about 10 times as many lawyers as we need in this country, and have for too long.
The credentialed sectors of the economy are bloated and it is way past time for them to shrink. Licensing laws have propped up these labor monopolies long enough and for decades few complained.
The division of labor needs shaking up.
The credentialed sectors of the economy are bloated and it is way past time for them to shrink. Licensing laws have propped up these labor monopolies long enough and for decades few complained.
The division of labor needs shaking up.
The boomer generation was huge, mostly white and generally well educated and ready to work hard. Boomers inherited the previous generation’s American-American culture. They are being replaced by a smaller generation that is less educated and of a changed marxist tribal culture that is not as independent and ambitous.
Everything is going to shrink. We are more socialist victim/tribal minded...third world. Not much anyone can do about it.
The whole of academia is contracting. Part of the change is from the rise of for-profit online universities. In many ways the criticism of these institutions is justified however, one of the main reasons that traditional universities hate these institutions is because they are outcome based without having the PC liberal indoctrination.
What is interesting is that students will choose these over traditional universities even though they are actually more expensive. I think having to put up with lower amounts of idiotic PC crap is a good reason to use an online university
Dennis Prager stated the other night-—and after reading “John Dewey and the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools has corrupted Teaching and Learning” (on purpose—he was a Fabian Socialist)-—Dennis stated that the longer students are in school-—for college and graduate schools-—the dumber they become.
They literally have all the “Common Sense” and Virtue beat out of them.
This is SO true-—because Marxism is irrational and evil and dehumanizing-—throws out Laws of Nature and Nature’s God and Wisdom—which is where understanding of true human nature is found-—
...so every “experience” that kids learn—about men and women, mother and father, and life are THROWN out-—and they are conditioned and “reeducated” to believe in unnatural, irrational things-—like men and women are interchangeable and Capitalism and Free Markets are “bad” and the sodomite Socialist Keynesian economics (collectivism) is superior.
They learn John Austin’s Legal Positivism===where law can be separated from morality—although Justice is a Virtue. It all is GARBAGE and LIES and never teaches Truth and Wisdom like the pre-Dewey days when Classics and the Bible were standard at every school.
Needing is a necessary, but by no means sufficient, condition for liking.
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