Let’s Help Academia Destroy Itself

Townhall.com ^ | March 4, 2013 | Kurt Schlichter

[exnavy]

RIP Higher education.

[hosepipe]

I hate optimists.. they do live in reality..
They OWN utopian academia in socialist cabals.. will NOT let it demise..

They have no problem with academia or re-education “camps”.. same to them.. either way..
Or even concentration camps.. or all three..

This kid has no idea what he is dealing with..
They will NOT let the media recover either..

Only way out of this box is the shedding of BLOOD....
Always was so, will remain so..

A corrupt people will make this so..
The evil stalking the land will not go away easily..
Only a courageous few can change “this”.. may not be many left..

http://www.afailureofcivility.com/

[txrefugee]

Some of the mountains of skulls in Cambodia were the end product of a brilliant plan by Pol Pot to get rid of his opponents in academia. He closed the universities and drove its inhabitants into the jungle. Having no basic survival skills, they died. He didn’t even have to buy bullets.

[RedBallJet]

...”the idea of higher education as a rigorous venue for intellectual growth, an environment of exciting and vibrant ideas shared by wise, caring educators dedicated to the pursuit of truth.”

...and it’s so much more meaningful when academic fraud
is what really gets you through it all. “No worries!”

[tom h]

"RIP Higher education."

Don't try to kill them all off ... my son is headed off to one of three Texas private Universities in the fall and they are all as conservative as can be. A tour guide told us that they had a gun control discussion in one Poly Sci class and, out of a class of 30, not one student (male or female) was in favor of gun control.

[abb]

The entire government schools system will be overturned within the next couple of decades.

http://theadvocate.com/home/5303014-125/lsu-going-online
LSU going online

[memyselfandi59]

There are far too many graduates and too few jobs, so I can hire a new lawyer for $50,000 – which is less than I made when I started 20 years ago. And that’s one near the top of his class at a prestigious school. Supply and demand is awesome for me; for young people, who largely voted for Obama, not so much. They get the hope but those of us who are established in liberal-approved fields like the law get to keep the change.

This is the truth. We know GaTech engineering grads who were hired (at least they were hired)...for $38K per year.

And there are many entry level jobs that require a grad degree (MBA or Masters in their business field) in order to be hired, and the starting pay is around 40K. But as I said, at least they are employed...and if they prove a valuable employee, the raises come after a couple years of proving themselves.

P.S. None of the grads I'm referencing voted for Obama :)

[monocle]

Peer pressure is especially potent during the late teens and early twenties.

[T-Bird45]

Good post and a good adjunct to the Mike Adams article you also posted.

[rocketmag]

Another problem is corporate America insisting on degrees for the mail room boy.. Guess they’re in on it too

[cripplecreek]

Fixing our colleges is relatively easy.

Strip the taxpayer funding out so the best and brightest don’t have to slog through a sea of mediocre students and professors.

[Graybeard58]

Another problem is corporate America insisting on degrees for the mail room boy.. Guess they’re in on it too

I believe that says something about supply and demand. There's a glut of people looking for jobs, so potential employers can pick the cream of the crop.

An example is employers who won't hire applicants with a misdemeanor on their record. It used to be that only felonies mattered. (It happened to my grand son).

[CommieCutter]

“RIP Higher education.”

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Let us hope. It’s no longer education as we all know.

[bert]

The reason for a degree for the mail room boy is to evidence certain prescience that can be leveraged so he can one day be promoted.

Plan ahead.....

[Trailerpark Badass]

It would be easier and cheaper for employers to able to use their own selection criteria, such as general aptitude tests, but those are racist.

[lbryce]

They don’t need our help. They’re quite capable of doing it themselves as they nearly have.

[rocketmag]

Can you name them ? :)

[Dusty Road]

“This is the truth. We know GaTech engineering grads who were hired (at least they were hired)...for $38K per year.”

And an 18 year old fresh out of school can make about 50% more than that in the oilfields of West TX.

[Stosh]

Just about anything you want to learn in the fundamental sciences is available for free on the internet (with more to come as MIT and other high power outfits go to open course formats) *except* for lab experience.

And forward-thinking companies (like pharmaceutical firms) that want to get a shot at candidates smart enough to avoid 6-figure debt in learning the fundamentals of their field could readily provide lab training for the folks they’re interested in.

So in the sciences, and perhaps in engineering, a requirement for college could easily fall by the wayside - and that would be great.

So far as most of the other stuff colleges offer - nowadays it’s mostly political indoctrination, and if that’s all they’ve got to offer, they’re going to have a tougher and tougher time convincing folks to fork over a quarter million dollars to get it.