Universities Sowing The Seeds
Of Their Own Obsolescence
Daily Caller,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/2/2020 11:21:13 AM
When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they recognize the name “Gettysburg”? Could they even identify the decade in which the Civil War was fought? Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud and self-righteous. But the media blitz during these last several weeks of protests,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/2/2020 11:26:01 AM (No. 464377)
This is excellent and sadly true. I've often noticed that the student assistants I have who are studying STEM, business or finance tend to be a lot more intelligent that those in the humanities. Sadly, the worst are the ones in teacher education.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pros7767 7/2/2020 11:35:52 AM (No. 464394)
STEM needs to be learned in college. Every other field should be learned through apprenticeships. Problem solved!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 7/2/2020 12:04:15 PM (No. 464433)
Your answer to questions, did they, could they.
Is, no.
Brainwashing in school does not include history or anything of importance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/2/2020 1:04:37 PM (No. 464508)
Actually, #2, England used to have a system where apprentices to auto makers learned to maintain and assemble cars, and also took classroom studies, so got the math, science and such in class and hands on experience in machine shops, assembly lines and mechanic's bays.
That can work, too, I think.
Speaking as a person with a couple of engineering degrees at a state university who also knows also machine tool operation, welding, engine overhaul and repairs, etc. But I didn't get the practical stuff in school, on my own, school of hard knocks, from my father, friends and some summer jobs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 7/2/2020 1:08:16 PM (No. 464513)
Most universities have become a cesspool of lies and propaganda directed at students who take out loans and pay high dollar tuition to be infected by crap. The fault lies with impotent administrators who do not believe in free speech and will not enforce civil discourse on campuses. Shame on them and may their campuses be underfunded and close forever.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 7/2/2020 1:08:39 PM (No. 464514)
#1, half way through my sister's sophmore year, she recognized that her selected non-STEM course of study had way less interesting, intelligent people than people she met who were on STEM track.
She asked me for advice, we looked closely at her switching over, but it would have meant literally starting from scratch, tossing almost two years of college time. She wound up staying on her course, but used all electives possible to learn some math and physics, and joined ROTC wound up as a USN aviator, then airline pilot. And she always regretted not getting the science/engineering degree.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 7/2/2020 1:50:35 PM (No. 464567)
Interesting.
They say, at the end of the article:
"You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com."
So, I sent him an email. It bounced back saying that this was an invalid address.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/2/2020 3:58:19 PM (No. 464697)
fta: Taxpayers who are hectored about their supposed racism, homophobia and sexism don’t enjoy such finger-wagging from loud, sheltered, 20-something moralists. Perhaps taxpayers will no longer have to subsidize the abuse if higher education is deemed to be a politicized institution and thus its endowment income ruled to be fully taxable.
What a gloriously fitting solution. Tax the income from their endowments. They have stopped being apolitical. In fact they are partisan producing factories.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 7/2/2020 5:10:44 PM (No. 464759)
Colleges in Maryland are admitting new students for the fall session in 2021 without even taking the SAT. That alone tells me colleges are hard up for money.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/2/2020 5:37:13 PM (No. 464779)
Tell Libs it's a good idea and they will not only dig their own grave but JUMP IN!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/2/2020 5:51:44 PM (No. 464789)
All one has to do, to see what higher education has wrought, is to watch old clips of Jay Leno's 'Jay Walking' or 'Waters World' to see the un-adulterated stupidity of todays college students. It's been going on for years.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
49 Ford 7/2/2020 9:44:43 PM (No. 464950)
Any serious change would have to occur over a generation or two.
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And the beat goes on. DeVos still in her job ? I resent my property taxes paying for schools.
It's not just colleges. A tech school sent someone to a friends business. She asked him to draw a one inch square on graph papers and the guy nearly had a nervous breakdown.
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