” Those who attacked the strict admissions standards at CCNY demanded “open admissions” — which was an impossible demand from the outset. If just anybody could get into CCNY, then it would no longer be CCNY in any meaningful sense, so what would those admitted accomplish by getting in? They could get into the buildings but there was no longer the same education there.
Turning what had once been known as “the poor man’s Harvard” into just another failing institution was apparently an object lesson. “Open admissions” was dropped.”
Well, DUH
Good job, Tom.
“Any hope of successfully educating poor minority children depends on separating them from the hoodlums who make education impossible in so many ghetto schools.”— from article
I’ve heard many times certain people cite the fact that these inner schools, (and others) are failing the students due to an uncaring white culture. They cannot seem to make the connection that it is the “hoodlums” in the classroom that causes a school to fail. You could transfer them to gold plated palaces with the best teachers in the world, with their hands tied in the same fashion, i.e. no discipline allowed, and the same failure would occur.
Who knows whether the cure-er of HIV/AIDS wasn't unnecessarily kept down in the 80's when 100's of thousands OF LEFTISTS, who concocted their own graves, could have been saved?
Obama and his minions would probably say that equality of outcomes and multiculturalism are far more important and polio would be a small price to pay.
These days education isn’t about educating anyone. These days it’s all about how we make them “feel”. Most of academia should be lined up against a wall for destroying the greatest educational system the world had ever seen.
“This myopic view of admissions decisions, as a question of choosing between applicant A versus applicant B, totally ignores the reason for the existence of educational institutions in the first place. These institutions were not created in order to dispense favors to particular individuals, but to confer benefits on society at large, by supplying graduates with skills valuable to the other members of society.”
Brilliant! And that is why quotas and such are not only unfair to truly qualified candidates, but to the rest of us as well.
Quotas in careers like firefighting and law enforcement effect the general population even more so.
