The only problem is, how is our civilization (or what's left of it, anyway) going to pass on a proper appreciation of Aquinas, Descartes, Rembrandt and Shakespeare?I’d like to pretend that this is more shocking than it is, but these days it’s just business as usual. The oblivious groups who push this sort of social restructuring and societal realignment via our nations’ campuses have a very clear intent and message, but fail to see how patently offensive it is to so many people. None of them are claiming that there’s anything technically wrong with being white, and they want to be very clear about that. No, the problem is that you walk around being white every single day, waking up, making your coffee, going to work and trying to keep your bills paid, and you do all of that without once stopping to think that you would have none of those things if it weren’t for the way that you’ve helped oppress minorities for your entire life.The shorter version of all this is that your “problem” isn’t that you’re white… it’s that you act insufficiently guilty for being white.Sadly, this is not uncommon enough at our universities to even raise an eyebrow. It may be time to just throw in the towel. Send your kids to technical school and teach them to weld or install heating and air conditioning. Heck, just send them to boot camp and have them do a stretch in the military. People like Campus Reform’s Lauren Clark are fighting a losing battle. The microcosm of the college campus is a lost cause and will probably not get over this sort of insanity until they finally collapse under their own weight.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The death rattle of the university - today's edition
By now you know about Arizona State's problem-with-whiteness course. Perhaps you've even read some commentary on it. For my money, the most salient point is made by Jazz Shaw at Hot Air:
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Yeah buddy, even an improper appreciation of Aquinas, Descartes, Rembrandt and Shakespeare is likely to get a weird look from the chickie babes and leave you sans cool car, hot crib and a smokin' babe, perhaps alone in your dorm room on a Saturday night. It''s money that they want.
ReplyDeleteYou may not be wrong about that.
ReplyDeleteArticle in today's WAPO affirms your contention here at http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/01/26/why-are-so-many-college-students-failing-to-gain-job-skills-before-graduation/?tid=sm_fb
ReplyDeletemany employers, still finds today’s college graduates severely lacking in some basic skills, particularly problem solving, decision making, and the ability to prioritize tasks.
“This is a generation that has been ‘syllabused’ through their lives,” Artim said, referring to the outline of a class students receive at the beginning of a college course. “Decisions were made for them, so we’re less likely to find someone who can pull the trigger and make a decision.”
Bosses, of course, have long complained that newly minted college grads are not ready for the world of work, but there is a growing body of evidence that what students learn — or more likely don’t learn — in college makes them ill-prepared for the global job market. Two studies in just the past few weeks show that the clear signal a college degree once sent to employers that someone is ready for a job increasingly has a lot of noise surrounding it.
Send your money and your kids to Hillsdale College.
ReplyDeleteThe findings outlined in the WAPO article conclude that private schools are doing no better than public. Why not send them to a juco for free and give them 130K to cut an impressive swath through this materialistic matrix we call America? That can land them lots of dates, a vibrant social network and you can hinge the gift on maintaining a part time job in a factory of a grocery store somewhere where they will learn decision making skills.
ReplyDeleteBasic expenses for the 2014-2015 academic year at Hillsdale are as follows:
Tuition $22,920
Room $4,570
Board (Knorr Family Dining Room) $4,680
General Fees $696
Total $32,866
This is assuming your kid(s) do what you want like colleges make them do what colleges want. A major criticism is that students are treated like learning receptacles their entire lives, including during college,, and graduate sans critical thinking skills, according to standardized testing. Don't tell me they don't cram conservatism down their developing little booze holes at Hillsdale. and don't tell me they ain't as ate up with making it the conspicuously consumptive way at Hillsdale, probably more so. It is every bit the dogmatic dispensary as the most religious of private colleges or the most secular of left leaning inoculators. We have a lot of work to do inculcating critical thinking skills at all levels of education. They're lost by the time they get to college. Gee, mom and dad, and of course, me, we all want a rich and happy family. Show us the way! Instead, I'd like to see more middle fingers thrust their way.
ReplyDeleteIt's not "cramming conservatism down their throat." It's making sure they have a grounding in the Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings and that the curriculum is not poisoned with identity politics and fictions about the environment.
ReplyDeleteAs if advertising on Rush Limbaugh assures their “virtus tentamine gaudet."
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