Now that the World can see what US Universities have become, what America has become, demand for university seats will plummet.
Paying to have you mind warped by a death cult is moronic.
Where did you attend University and what did you major in?
Now I’m in agreement that there are a lot of University Majors that are grossly overpriced considering they have little to no value in the market place. There are many trade jobs now with high demand that with 6 months to 2 years training and education will pay more now than many University degrees but not all. It is also true that something needs to be done about the ridiculous cost of a University education.
Having said that my STEM field education defies all the stereotypes you’re generalizing about. I wasn’t brain washed with liberal ideologies. In fact I was a leader in the Young Republicans group on my campus. I took far more liberal arts classes than was required by my pre-med major because I wanted to be more than just a solid science geek. I wanted to become a well rounded person too, which is a major goal for a liberal arts education which, at present, is the finest type of higher education one can receive but that predicated on that as a person you have more than just narrow economic interests at heart. Which though I met all the Requirements for a BS upon advice from my academic advisor I chose a BA because I had done the extra work. My advisor was proven correct as my BA did help me to get selected for graduate school over students with BS degrees and better GPA’s. Namely it helped because it better prepared me for the MCAT exam in which I scored a 40. Which to put that in perspective the average score for the MCAT at that time was 30 (the MCAT, is an Allied Health care graduate school entrance exam with, at that time a scoring system of 0-50 with 50 being a perfect score).
So I went to Med School for a year and went broke, started my Environmental career in recycling as a way to earn savings to get back into med school but ended up getting a Masters in Materials Science of all things.
I haven’t looked back on that decision as I’ve loved my career in the environmental field and have been earning well above an average income while not suffering from the crippling debt of Med School.
So this taking the posturing of a handful of liberal arts majors and academics as being representative of Universities being progressive brain washing machines is not even close to being representative of the educational experience most University Students have.
I’m proud of what I accomplished at University as I was able to accomplish what only about 5% of university students can achieve. A graduate education in a STEM field and no I don’t consider social sciences a STEM major. It was bullheaded determination and lots of hard work and devestating frustrations at times and despite serious obstacles I had to overcome just to get into University. I not only succeeded in having a financially successful career but a damned interesting and adventurous one to and I succeeded in the goal of becoming a better more well rounded person as is the goal of a liberal arts education. Not only that a owe a lifetime debt to those professors who inspired me, encouraged me, who motivated me and instilled the confidence in me that I could succeed in doing something incredibly hard to do because they believed in me having the ability and talen to succeed in my goals that I seriously lacked at that time. The high school I graduated from told me the entire time I was in high school that I wasn’t college material, that I didn’t have the intelligence (despite having a 136 IQ) for college let alone majoring in a STEM field. But thanks to my parents belief in me and the generous support, encouragement and inspiration I received from these selfless University professors who mentored me I overcome those obstacles and flourished.
This is also why I consider my University years some of the best years of my life.
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