Posted on 02/13/2018 6:02:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Dershowitz explains why I never like to hire Ivy League graduates in my line of work.
College students fomented the Cultural Revolution by attacking professors who weren’t radical enough or who weren’t down with the struggle. Mao encouraged the student’s behavior. Academia had no choice but to succumb to the pressure and collectively support the revolution. Little red books were suddenly everywhere...
Yep - doesn’t matter if your a drill instructor/NCO/military officer or a business supervisor/manager or a teacher/professor - it’s all about setting the highest standard and holding people accountable to that standard IF you want them to survive and become more capable.
If you allow them to slack then they die/fail and the organization dies/fails. If not in the short term then in the long term.
People are too focused on the short term and not the long game. If they are focused on the long game then it is one of sabotage.
Rather, professors are concerned that students may give them negative class evaluations, and the poor reports will damage their social standing.
“They want their student evaluations to be very, very high. They want to be admitted to all the academic societies and clubs,” Dershowitz explained.
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The inmates are being allowed to run the asylum.
That goes against the whole premise of transferring knowledge from the teacher to the student.
No wonder we are ending up with so many snowflakes who never grow up.
I couldn't agree more. I've heard the same ‘future leaders of America’ line used to describe students at high-priced private high schools. It's beyond ridiculous. It's way, way past time that we stop thinking that the brightest minds come from specific schools/universities. They absolutely do not.
What determines who goes to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.? A variety of factors, many that are not achievement based, and most determined before the beginning of your senior year of high school. A certain number of admissions go to ‘legacy’ students whose parents went to that university and who are able and willing to donate money. There are those who are there because they add ‘cache’ to the entering classes (e.g. they come from famous families, rich families, or both). There are also those there because they fulfill the diversity criteria (e.g. non-Americans, minorities, or members of other PC groups).
The slots that go to students on the basis of academic achievement are, again, determined generally on what those students achieved by the end of junior year in high school. Thus, in essence, if we ‘choose’ our leaders from specific universities, we are essentially choosing future leaders from high school junior and early senior classes. Really? No wonder we have so many issues.
GPA in high school often comes down to how motivated or externally ‘pushed’ a student was in the early years of high school. A lot of kids are sorting out who they are and what they want to be during those years, and developing socially. It's normal and healthy. Some of the most creative, talented, and bright people bloom later and are not stellar high-school students.
Yes, indeed! Another problem is that we choose “leaders” from the lawyer class (law schools). Those men and women are trained not to believe in the law or the Constitution but trained to work around it. Hillary, for example or choose anyone on Capitol Hill.
That’s a famous incident on Mark’s show! He still jokes about it.
“Another problem is that we choose “leaders” from the lawyer class (law schools).”
Again, I totally agree. Further, they all went to the same small group of law schools (Ginsburg is the only one on the SC who didn’t graduate from Harvard or Yale law school. She attended Harvard law school, but graduated from Columbia law school). Talk about a formula for group think..
“A couple of weeks before the election he was on the Mark Simone radio show shilling for Hillary. He was regurgitating the talking points about Trump university lawsuits when Simone broke in and said what about the Clintons and their Laureate University scandal? Dershowitz had a snit-fit and hung up. Didn’t even know about Laureate and sure didn’t want to debate Clinton scandals. Here’s a famous Harvard law professor not wanting or able to debate a local radio talk show host. And now he gets a paycheck from Fox so he pretends to be more critical of the left? He’s a hypocrite and a sell-out and apparently not as smart and informed as people make him out to be.”
Dershowitz was a talk radio critic during the 1990s. He wanted the Fairness Doctrine brought back and he wanted hosts like Bob Grant to be fired.
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