Posted on 05/17/2019 5:19:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
‘Tis the season of commencement addresses. You know, those lengthy, vapid, and self-important speeches that conclude the collegiate experience. The vast majority of graduation speakers are leftists and Democrats, predictably extolling diversity, globalism, identity politics, gender empowerment and – of course – climate change. Most graduates hungover and bored, absorb the platitudes. After the speech, a degree in hand, the indoctrination is complete.
I won’t attempt to give you my own commencement address here (you’ll have to watch Sunday’s “Fox & Friends” when I give the first-ever “Fox & Friends” Commencement Address – tune in!). Instead, I simply want to highlight three stark realities that students and parents should know, rather than accept the onslaught of advice from liberals, leftists, and Democrats. A little common sense that otherwise gets missed in the mad rush to get a degree.
First, you just wasted a lot of time and money. Plenty of students drift through four-year colleges because, well, that’s what you do. I did the same thing. Now you have a degree you didn’t really need, and mountains of debt to boot. A better option for many students is a non-ideological, private-sector vocational or trade school. Schools focused on specific skills that actually prepare you to get real jobs with great pay.
Predictably, Democrats want to destroy private-sector higher education in favor of their existing network of cash-machine indoctrination camps. Democrats are using a simple, but effective, playbook to destroy private sector higher education: define taxpaying colleges as evil, propose policies to restrict access to private career colleges and offer “free” public college to the masses as a solution. It’s false but sounds great. Nothing is free – you might not have learned that in Economics 101.
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I am sad to have to admit that at least 3/4 of my college education was a waste of my Dad’s hard earned money.
The colleges and universities are overloaded with socialists and far-left ideologues. Extremely true.
But liberalism is growing fast even in the high schools now. So it’s difficult to escape it. And that will continue because it is the colleges that are educating the teachers. So the liberalism is trickling down.
Starting in the 60s and 70s liberals made a push to take over academia and the conservatives sat and let it happen. We are now seeing the results of that.
The impediment is one needs a piece of paper to get most jobs whether it is relevant to their job or now. Thank a lawyer.
Harvard Law School DOES NOT REQUIRE a “US CONSTITUTION” class...!!!
There are legitimate curricula where you actually learn things, like engineering, medicine, accounting.
But most studies today are useless four-year bulls***ing sessions.
They need to be shut down. $100,000 a year political science, journalism, women’s studies professors who teach one class need to be let go and find jobs in the real world.
College education today is America’s biggest scam. Shut them down.
Skilled labor is where the opportunities are in today’s jobs market.
Learn plumbing. It pays. In fact, it pays great money.
Time to sober up, get a job and enter the world of reality.
A brain surgeon called a plumber on a Sunday to fix a leaky faucet. The plumber changed the washer in 2 minutes and handed the doctor a bill for $200.
Doctor: This is too much, I don’t even charge that much for 2 minute work...
Plumber: I know, I used to be a surgeon too, that’s why I’m a plumber now!
It's already in k - 12 and has been for a decade.
Non-ideological? Get real.
LOL! Yeah, right? Doc should be grateful . IN real life a plumber would charge you twice.
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