How Higher Education Can Win Back America

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Kurmugeon said:
America has moved on...

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Have we?

Universities are horrible places of indoctrination and control, which long ago lost their real sense of purpose.

I made the decision to leave the higher education sector in the summer of this year, and the relief has been massive ever since.

Gender. Race. Sexuality. Environment. That’s the message if you read English.

It’s also the message if you’re reading history, geography or fine art - everything in the arts and humanities, in fact.

Subjects are a thing of the past.

Brainwashed little bullies march round spouting bile and screaming oppression; sense, reason and debate are no longer recognised as signifiers of intellectual rigour. Nobody learns anything worth a damn.

That’s the awful truth of it. It’s sad, in some respects, that the sector is dying (and it IS on its last legs BTW - take away the prop of Chinese money and the whole thing would come crashing down within a year).

But it’s also gloriously liberating!

Once young people understand that they don’t need a formal mis-education in soft subjects - they just need an internet connection and the ability to read - then maybe those subjects will become tough and exciting again.

They’re there to be explored - so explore them…

-Curate your own reading.

-Ask the people you respect for recommendations.

-Read the texts themselves, rather than the critical-theoretical manglings which masquerade as analysis.

STOP FUNDING THE MACHINE.


The sooner we liberate teens and twenty-somethings from the twin harms of institutionalized genderism and race-obsession, the sooner we return to something like normality. They’ll stop worrying about environmental armageddon, too.

Overnight. Why? Because it’s all linked. My God, what the hell has so-called education done to our poor kids? They should be suing universities to hell and beyond.



~ @KiszelyPhilip
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Getting rid of all of the grievance studies would be a step in the right direction.

All of the DIE bureaucracy as well.

Then we can see.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The #1 problem is the lack of education that takes place at the universities now.
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The #1 problem with universities is the mandatory Marxist indoctrination. It is becoming more and more difficult to find a university whose graduates are competent in even the fundamentals.
 
Diogenes said:
Have we?

Universities are horrible places of indoctrination and control, which long ago lost their real sense of purpose.

I made the decision to leave the higher education sector in the summer of this year, and the relief has been massive ever since.

Gender. Race. Sexuality. Environment. That’s the message if you read English.

It’s also the message if you’re reading history, geography or fine art - everything in the arts and humanities, in fact.

Subjects are a thing of the past.

Brainwashed little bullies march round spouting bile and screaming oppression; sense, reason and debate are no longer recognised as signifiers of intellectual rigour. Nobody learns anything worth a damn.

That’s the awful truth of it. It’s sad, in some respects, that the sector is dying (and it IS on its last legs BTW - take away the prop of Chinese money and the whole thing would come crashing down within a year).

But it’s also gloriously liberating!

Once young people understand that they don’t need a formal mis-education in soft subjects - they just need an internet connection and the ability to read - then maybe those subjects will become tough and exciting again.

They’re there to be explored - so explore them…

-Curate your own reading.

-Ask the people you respect for recommendations.

-Read the texts themselves, rather than the critical-theoretical manglings which masquerade as analysis.

STOP FUNDING THE MACHINE.


The sooner we liberate teens and twenty-somethings from the twin harms of institutionalized genderism and race-obsession, the sooner we return to something like normality. They’ll stop worrying about environmental armageddon, too.

Overnight. Why? Because it’s all linked. My God, what the hell has so-called education done to our poor kids? They should be suing universities to hell and beyond.



~ @KiszelyPhilip
https://x.com/KiszelyPhilip
https://x.com/KiszelyPhilip/status/1873060461698003158
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Is that so?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Yea? What University did you attend?

You and I would be in agreement if you were complaining about the Humanities departments have an oversize influence at many Universities but you can’t actually blame that on the Universities. They’re just singing to the choir because many youngsters from affluent families aren’t interested in the more rigorous work required for learning hard skills such as STEM (and I don’t consider social sciences a STEM field), Arts and business (and yea Art is a hard major because it’s an applied field that’s might be easy to learn on paper but really hard to do at a high level in practice).

So the Universities are just giving the Market what it wants. That is reinforced by corporations who actually prefer people with soft college majors in the specious stereotype that persons with soft college majors have better people and leadership skills.

So the Universities are not the drivers here. They’re just responding to market demand. In corporate reality where you went to college means far more than what you actually studied and don’t BS yourself that in the corporate world that matters far more than competence.

But you’re painting with to broad of a stroke here.

You could make a very good argument than a tradesman with master craftsman status will earn far more than someone with a Woman’s Studies degree.

Having said that by no means are all college students taking soft majors. A lot of us do take very rigorous majors and we have to bust our asses to learn concepts and skills that are incredibly hard to learn.

I personally come from a working class background and had to overcome a lot of obstacles to even get into college. I busted ass in my Pre-Med Major (Biology Major with a minor in chemistry). Got accepted into graduate school to study Human biology and then returned to College ten years later to do graduate studies in materials science/engineering.

So I can tell you objectively that I received an excellent education that did a great job of preparing me to be a highly skilled professional in my field. One in which I earn a pretty good income.

So I am justifiably proud of what I accomplished in higher education as I beat the odds for someone with my background and though I do have a high IQ it wasn’t that which earned me my academic success but hard assed work for 7 year as an impoverished student.

But those were my goals and I’m no snob about it. I have worked as colleagues with many tradesmen over the years who were incredibly skilled and creative and worked every bit as hard as I did to learn their profession. In fact in my early career several of them mentored me and I will always feel indebted to them for what they taught me.

So it’s not the Universities that have lost their way. It’s our society that has lost its way in valuing education. Society now sees higher education as a status symbol as opposed to a means of bettering themselves as a person.

I mean how many of us know morons who got into a prestigious university not by merit but due their social status of their family, took a Mickey Mouse major, then landed a high paying job after school because they have a Harvard diploma. The real truth is that other than the social status gained there isn’t a dimes bit of difference in the quality of education between Harvard and State U.

So I guess what I’m saying to you is by claiming the Universities are the problem you’re confusing the symptoms with the underlying real problem.
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Why did you ultimately decide to do a graduate degree in materials science, rather than biology?
 
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