RIP Higher education.
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/
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.
...”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!”
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
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 :)
Good post and a good adjunct to the Mike Adams article you also posted.
Another problem is corporate America insisting on degrees for the mail room boy.. Guess they’re in on it too
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.
They don’t need our help. They’re quite capable of doing it themselves as they nearly have.
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.
a ray of hope.
Infrastructure for developing progressive ideas
The REAL genius in their scam though was their incredible success in convincing 95% of employers not to even interview candidates who did not have a worthless diploma from one of their Potemkin institutes.
Pathetic rant: long on the obvious flaws, but short on solutions. Worse, it does nothing to address the bigger problem that is k-12. Liberal arts schools couldn’t make much of such crappy students even if they so desired.
If you want to have a real effect on Academia and already have a Master’s degree, then go to work for them. At least 1/3 of courses taught at Texas public universities are taught by part time (adjunct) instructors, and the administration of my two schools are looking to change that to 2/3.
Every student has to go through a certain number of basic courses, and those courses are generally taught by the adjuncts. My boss at one of the campuses I teach at has asked me twice if I know anyone who might be qualified to teach Computer Science or Information Technology. The word is that they have not had a single qualified applicant for a year.
What would happen if every student was taught their basic courses by a qualified adjunct who also was a conservative and who would put a conservative spin on their course? More importantly, when the students come by and ask for advice (and if you act reasonably interested in them, they will ask), you get to give them good, Godly, conservative information.
The job has to be done. If you can spare three or more hours per week, look into becoming an adjunct at your local college. The pay isn’t bad, and you can make a difference.
I used to work for a large financial firm. Starting in the financial slide of about 2008, they were able to hire MBA's to work the phones, at $12-14 / hour.
The lady VP who ran Ops loved it. She got her pick of people, and was able to choose the smart, motivated ones. And, more often than not, they were promoted up through the ranks.
But, I must say, the kids that were brought in .... who had been fed a steady diet of - "You're SPECIAL!! You're a (capital)M - (capital)B - (capital)A!!!" ... and who expected to be shown a corner office, personal masseuse, and 6 figure salary .... got a cold bucket of water thrown on them.
The smarter ones realized that they just had to pay their dues, and appropriate perks would follow. The less-intelligent ones, generally didn't last long.
This is an insightful look at the Academented and does offer a cure for present”Skooling” failings.
www.wildergarten.com/wp_pages/articles/knowledge_economy.html
Not surprisingly, done by a FReeper.
Happy Reading.