Posted on 01/05/2024 9:42:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Quite and I think it’s because post-secondary education has been turned into a paper mill instead of higher learning.
Publish or die, as they say.
I’ll make three observations:
1. If you watch/read news a good bit...you probably sit there at least once a day...noting some expert/PhD-type who is duping BS, and not that clever/smart. The CNN/Fox/MSNBC crowd advanced these people in the past 20 years...giving them a platform...was the wrong thing to do.
2. I was within the military structure in the 1990s (coming out of school in 1977) and clearly noticed that high school kids entering service were lacking. I have no idea what they do in high schools today...but it appears they hit the peak by the 7th grade.
3. PhD-level status is a 50-50 proposition these days. I’d hate to tell some idiot they spent $250k for eight years of college and a quarter of the people at Burger King are at their mental level of knowledge and capability.
Free Markets are self adjusting. When Government gets involved, however, all bets are off. You get silly things like D.I.E. implemented. (Diversity Inclusion Equality). Injecting Government into our schools is likely the biggest mistake America has ever made .
It’s not germane to the serious topic on the near worthlessness of most American higher education and it doesn’t befit anyone to comment on anyone’s resemblance...but doesn’t Gay resemble Tooter the turtle with glasses?
” Injecting Government into our schools is likely the biggest mistake America has ever made .”
Wrong.
Letting Democrats and unions into the schools and Government was the failure.
as long as people get jobs without merit we will see lots of these idiots in positions of power....
sadly you are wrong...
getting that diploma in some weak liberal arts pays very well in govt.....
and then these weak liberal arts majors get into law school because of their race or political affiliation....
this is why so many of these type lawyers sound absolutely stupid.
It isn’t about how good your ideas are. It is how well you play the game.
Like many things in our culture, it depends on who’s doing it.
I would think the paradigm of hiring people with college degrees is the best way to go ,is shattered.
You are correct in the sense of the education being worth something to the echo chamber of liberals. Very good point.
Democrats don't care about anybody or anything except POWER. No matter how much they sieze it is never enough. A plum as juicy as the minds of ignorant youth would inevitable become a target of their propaganda. Separation of School and State is an Idea whose time has come.
They get their power by black-listing true intellectually able individuals who perceive, isolate, prove and publish fraudery. Such people are not idiots. They are simply capable but lazy self-serving copiers who wish to occupy high-paying tenured offices quickly without earning their way upward by their own productivity.
Knock out the academic tenure machine and the problem goes away, IMHO.
The left, and all their bosom buddies, need to come to grips with the facts that outright
rejection of Western values (in the DEI hire of Claudine Gay) has enormous consequences.
Harvard’s Brave New World failed spectacularly.
Harvard has lost its honor, its academic preeminence and faces problems yet to
surface when it chose to burden itself with the cumbersome baggage of Claudine Gay.
To blame this on conservatism is preposterous.
Conservatism did not make Claudine say and do the things that contributed to her fall from grace.
Rather Claudine Gay was taking her cues from liberalism. She disdained and demeaned
cultural norms, and appeared to have not even a modicum of limits on her behavior.
IOW, a perfect liberal.
Claudine Gay’s worship of DEI was bound to end in failure
since DEI exalts human frailties...... and not just anywhere.
Gay exploited human weaknesses in a place-—Harvard-—
which goes to extraordinary lengths to do just the opposite.
One educated at Harvard is expected to be among the best and brightest........
not resemble a needy dithering halfwit dependent on DEI to get ahead.
“Trump & his movement must be countered strongly and stopped.”
Government power to tax and to control must be reduced by constitutional amendments.
Montgomery Ward and Sears were once retail kings.
Universities can fall from grace too.
Even if one cites others’ papers, junk in those papers just gets recycled by being cited, and then your paper gets cited, etc. It feeds on itself so garbage ends up becoming accepted as real information.
“In college and having finished a class paper much earlier than everyone else, the professor assigned me the task of finding plagiarism in other student papers.”
As a nineteen year old majoring in History at a major American university, I was required to submit a Junior Year study (of thirty pages or longer). Frankly, I was too young to be able to propose anything new or novel. Thus, I knew I had to “fake it.” It was, simply put, an exercise in plagiarism, and everyone knew it.
Academia is a cesspool of les incompetentes.
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