[Jacob Kell]

I think that parents should send their kids to vocational schools instead. At least why learn stuff that can help get jobs, and they won’t be propagandized by a bunch of pothead Communist faculty.

[zencycler]

My survey questions would be:

1) What have your parents taught you about America?

2) What have your professors taught you about America?

My bet would be that the problem gets identified by the disparity between those two answers - not so much that the first is so positive and the second so negative, but more likely that the first is virtually nothing, and the second is a lot of negative somethings.

Hence, nature abhors a vacuum, idle minds are the devil’s playground, and whatever other proverbs would apply. But bottom line, as much as one would like to blame the professors and/or the students themselves, it’s also important not to forget about how to many parents in our generation have abandoned the role of imparting patriotism to our children - either at home, or through parental supervision and pressur at PTA meetings, through the early education experience in grades K-12.

[Bernard Marx]

I think vocational training is the coming trend. People are beginning to catch on that a degree in queer studies doesn't get you much farther than a cot in your parents' basement after graduation. When I was in high school many moons ago, there were multiple vocational options for students who didn't care to explicate e.e. cummings's poetry or study Latin.

The big government/college scam that's leaving uneducated kids with horrendously college loans they can't pay off will turn out to be one of the great scandals in American history.