Posted on 04/07/2009 5:48:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Case Against the College Degree
http://www.smartmoney.com/Personal-Finance/College-Planning/The-Case-Against-the-College-Degree/
These K-12 Marxist indoctrinated teachers have now thoroughly infiltrated our government K-12 schools. Our nation's K-12 schools are full to the brim with them.
SHAME ON CONSERVATIVES! They have consistently failed to provide a nationwide system of tuition-free private schools. They send their kids off to Marxist, atheistic, and secular humanist dominated K-12 schools. Is it any wonder that these kids are defenseless before their Marxist university professors?
Conservatives must start immediately doing several things simultaneously:
1) Remove your kids from government K-12 schools. Do this immediately!
2) Search out private colleges that support conservative values.
3) Stop sending money to Marxist universities and colleges.
4) Organize conservative educational foundations that would award grants to private conservative teachers. These conservative teachers would open tuition-free one room school houses, mini-schools, and homeschool cooperatives. The conservative educational foundation would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, and test the students.
5) Organize college philanthropy foundations to open new conservative colleges and universities.
Please abandon the idea that government K-12 schooling can be reformed. It was a socialist idea from the beginning whose goal was to produce a pliant and conforming citizenry. It is succeeding admirably in its goal.
Marylanders PING
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I was listening to John Taylor Gatto (new book, “Weapons of Mass Education”) on the radio a couple of nights ago. He rattled off about ten names of people who started companies such as Microsoft, Dell. These ten people either didn’t bother to attend college or if they did, didn’t bother to graduate. They did pretty well for themselves as everyone knows. He did mention one person, Wozniak (sp?) who decided to go to college to earn a teaching degree (giving back to the community, I guess).
He also mentioned open source education which is available to all today. He said parents should encourage their children to become entrepreneurial and open their own businesses while teenagers.
This is sort of an aside to the main point of the article, but I think that premise is seriously flawed. I took a woman's studies class in the 70's and you could use the same methodology they used to "prove" women were oppressed to show that men are actually the oppressed class these days.
Far from having a patriarchy, I think we've got a matricrhy far more: our whole society is geared toward ensuring security. No tax is too onerous, no law too oppressive, if only it creates some sort of security for someone.
....the reason the Women’s Studies people are anti-capitalist is simple....a W.Studies degree is worthless in a capitalist economy....so they make jobs for themselves in universities.....there was a funny song out a while back that went:
“I got a degree in Women’s Studies, how come I can’t pay my rent?”
Not everyone can afford to send their children to private schools and not everyone can home school their children. I certainly would not have been able to when my kids were school age.
Lets hope so.
Do you think he's being too hard on the colleges and just needs to calm down? [sarcasm tag]
I’m finishing a master’s degree program at a Christian college. The government now requires a master’s for me to continue to work.
Every class features a multiculturalism assignment. You could take a course on drywalling and they would insert a multicultural assignment.
Now I’ve got an entire course to take on this communist drivel. Usually, I fill up my papers with ironies and twists that leave the instructors wondering if they support it or not. I’ve been torn between doing that for a semester, or taking the direct approach, saying “Kill whitey. Whitey must die, and citing communist party sources.”
I find that unbelievable. However, the way you phrased it, if there's one in 10,000 who cannot do either of the two, you are technically correct.
That said, there are more than two alternatives -- a parent needs merely to explore the matter thoroughly, and options will be found. There are affordable private schools; affordable parochial schools; scholarships; tuition assistance programs; and other things that people can cut from their budget, things of less importance than their children's minds and futures.
If I could not homeschool, I would sooner apply for food stamps, medical assistance or private charity, than entrust my child to the government and its educational system.
It's hard to imagine any conservative who is intellectually or financially incapable of homeschooling. They merely haven't given it sufficient consideration.
But again, there could be 1 in 10,000!
This morning our local talk radio host, Tom Marr, said that radical Islamists were responsible for all the terrorism in today's world, and Obama shouldn't be over there apologizing to muslim nations for our system; it's their systems that need to shape up. A guy called in insisting that Islamists weren't the only world terrorists. So Tom Marr said, "Name the other terrorists." The guy reached back to slavery in the U.S., and then to the localized and more settled Irish troubles, which Marr refuted. "Name one today," he insisted; the guy said, "Hey! You're really putting me on the spot here!"
Moron.
Dr. Braa, your village is missing its boob.
Yes, when you ask the mush-minded to answer a direct question, using accurate facts, it really flummoxes them.
Are you willing to foot the bill for any student who has to repeat a class after disagreeing with their communist professor?
This co-founder of Apple Computer may actually have something to teach. Is he a lib???
I don’t know. Sounds altruistic though. The type that thinks he has to “give back.”
I’m suspicious too...
What ever happened to the old quote from the King James?
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Raise them to be conservatives and they will be conservatives. Mom’s and Dad’s lessons, sermons, and the occasional kick in the butt to remind me I was going down a bad path helped me learn to say or write what I had to in order to get the grade then forget it.
Can a real conservative be re-educated to be a ZEROBOT Zombie? I surely hope not!!!!
Cadddis the Younger
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