Posted on 03/18/2018 8:08:50 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Have you ever heard the old saying that a conservative is just a liberal who got mugged?
Well, I got mugged – to the tune of $60,000 a year. It’s called “tuition.”
Like everyone who cons themselves into attending a liberal arts college, I was captivated by the idea of changing the world. I would immerse myself in a diverse pool of academic thought, theory, and action.
Well…it didn’t quite work out that way.
Over the course of four years, I was transformed from a plucky, free-thinking free spirit into a cranky, get-off-my-lawn conservative.
The process started not long after I arrived at my elite East Coast school. I thought I was there to expand my knowledge of the world; to debate the great ideas. I soon realized, however, that my professors had something else in mind.
Invariably each class followed the same monotonous ritual: identify a problem – say, racism; blow it up beyond all proportion; blame the problem on the white majority culture; and then offer an unworkable solution – usually involving the government.
Everywhere I turned, I saw political correctness. At first, I just rolled with it. Then, I got annoyed. Then, it started to tick me off.
I was being brainwashed. Indoctrinated. And I was paying for the privilege – with borrowed money!
Almost every speaker who came to campus was a leftist journalist, a leftist activist, or a leftist professor from another leftist school.
The ones who weren’t leftists were just weird. One time, I attended a film lecture given by a very skilled paraplegic adult film star who showed us some of her “art.” Another time, I went to a performance given by a woman who engaged in auto-eroticism...
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Here we have another case study for Problem Solving 101.
This person has an idealized notion of life and the university.
He attends the university and it’s not what he expected.
He becomes bitter and disillusioned.
He has a problem. The world isn’t like what he thought it should be.
His answer?
Changing majors? Dropping out of college? Seeing a therapist?
Nope.
Borrow money and smoke pot.
Ignore reality.
That always works.
Yeah, college is like a den of zombies. You get infected and the next thing you know you’re part of the mass mob of brainless, walking dead. No wonder zombies movies are so big these days. People go from protective snowflakes into screaming monsters at the drop of the hat. Unthinking ideology will do that, will make you conform to the thoughtless masses that are directed at destroying anyone unlike themselves. Now that I think about it, zombie movies are a great symbol of our times!
Yep. I attended and was graduated with honors from the most elite college in the country, but I don’t particularly want my children to be legacies.
He was transformed into “a cranky, get-off-my-lawn conservative.”
What an atrocious and thoroughly ridiculous trope. Nothing could be further from the actual truth. Conservatives are happy people and just want to be free from the jackboot on their necks. Conservatives do far more good works and make far more charitable donations than liberals. Conservatives do things to make their lives, families, communities, and nation better. Liberals whine and wait “for government to do something.”
Liberals are constantly angry, hating EVERYTHING about America and our goodness. They are the most miserable people you will ever meet.
I quit reading right there (even if he perhaps wrote that in jest — why perpetuate a stereotype).
Bryan Caplan’s new book “The Case Against Education” does a good job of explaining why college is a waste of time and money for the most part. People do earn more money if they go to college—but only because it signals they’re the kind of person who can complete a college degree. It has almost nothing to do with what they learned there. Without college, we could find cheaper and better ways to do this signaling. It’s a powerful argument.
I went to Liberty University where every class has at least one “faith integration” assignment. God is given as the answer to the world’s problems and the only way to him is through faith in Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross.
So, my college experience was quite pleasant and did not upset my worldview the slightest bit.
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I happen to be a college graduate of a CA state school..40 years ago. I went to likely the most conservative school in the system...but majored in electronic engineering. Needless to say...I have made a good living with it. However I was a conservative before I got there and ran into only one class ..that I had issues with the proof for political difference. Yeah that cost me a decent grade. My kid graduated with a degree in journalism a couple of years ago. He went to OU...in Oklahoma..he didn’t learn anything truly useful for work there but made contacts that have got him employed in the movie industry.. networks of friends have served me well..and it is helping him too...so to me this perhaps the only useful part of the college experience for him..other than simply having the sheepskin as a box to check. He was self taught in his actual chosen field and has always been self motivated... getting the 75 percent scholarship didn’t hurt either. He doesn’t have student debt and we kept to the budget during those four years so the college account of 32grand covered everything but air travel on the holidays...so all in all..a positive
experience.
Over the course of four years, I was transformed from a plucky, free-thinking free spirit into a cranky, get-off-my-lawn conservative.
Lucky you. Buy your first gun yet?
I also went to college, awash in leftist social norms. I left questioning them all.
If your definition of "the most elite college in the country" is the same as mine, then perhaps we'll cross paths at Reunions.
I'm happy I went there. I majored in an engineering program. I'm glad for the "liberal arts" requirements. Made me a stronger individual all around. I enjoyed poking fun at some lefty instructors in class, and making the class suck ups cringe.
Raising money for the first Reagan election was a blast.
Read peoples comments, and they are a bit harsh. Yeah, the kid was dumb. Probably didn’t have a dad who kicked him in the butt! But he learned, regretted what he went thru and will be better for it. Don’t beat him down for a past mistake he acknowledged.
Anyone who goes to college and starts learning facts about what really goes on in the world becomes a conservative.......
$60,000 a year? Gulp! When I went to Arizona State University, I had to work three part-time jobs to pay for my tuition. $150 a semester or $300 a year plus books and summer school classes in the late 60s. I graduated with a four year business degree in three years to save money. I was always broke. But I had zero debt after graduating.
My parents didn't help except room and board if I wanted it but being 18 and a college kid, I moved out and lived with friends. Did the laundry at home once a week on Sunday and ate dinner with my family then.
I didn't see $60,000 a year until retired from the service and was in upper management at a mortgage banker.
It is my belief that someone who doesn't have enough sense to not borrow $240,000 for four years of college for some worthless liberal arts degree, then they shouldn't be attending university to begin with.
Going to college doesn't make you any smarter. Only more educated.
Better late than never. We can use all the help we can get.
I was watching a YouTube video of an absolutely beautiful and intelligent conservative young woman who was viciously verbally and physically abused her whole life by her Leftist family members. She didn’t understand how much worth she really possessed. I know she’s not alone.
But a college education is SO much cheaper now because government jumped in and made it affordable.
As soon as the government took over the student loan programs from the banks, colleges and universities started raising their tuitions, knowing the government was paying now. Typical liberal idea.
As tuitions and ancillary costs like on-campus housing and cafeterias, took off, student loans got bigger and bigger just to pay for the greed of the universities.
Anytime the government is involved in anything, it is more expensive, usually much more expensive.
The solution is to throw it back into the private sector where completion will drive down the costs and, in turn, the student loan amounts.
Precisely. Also, where do 200,000 “starving” students find the fund to go on “spring break” at San Padre Island?
My “spring break” was more studying and working. Mom and dad were 1,000 miles away and I only got home at Christmas. The whole hedonistic, self-indulgent thing really hacks me off.
Then 75% of them will whine about spending all that money on a useless degree and nobody will hire them.
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