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| 'How Progressive Elite Control of Education Embitters Americans |
| 2018-11-03 |
| [National Review] Let me share two seemingly disconnected items. The first comes from the New York Times. Yesterday it profiled five Harvard College freshmen as they discussed how they gained admission into one of the nation’s most selective universities. It was striking how keenly aware they were of the admissions committee’s quirks and biases. It was as if they knew the stew the committee was trying to create, and their challenge was to market themselves as the right kind of ingredient. There was the Asian-American student who joined the Air Force ROTC in part because she didn’t want to be seen as the "typical Asian." There was another Asian composer from London who says she wouldn’t have "ticked the Asian box" if she had been a STEM student. Another student, a white man, believes he gained admission in part because he was from the Midwest and his family was low-income. If you’ve ever served on an elite university’s admissions committee, you can see that the students are keenly aware of the game. They highlight their quirks, downplay their privileges, and exaggerate the adversity they had to overcome. (I’ll never forget the young woman who described herself as "formerly homeless" when her wealthy family had merely decided to travel the country in an RV for a year.) Heavily ideological institutions have decided how they want to socially engineer the American elite, and ambitious young Americans must bend to their will. The second item is a bit strange. This spring we moved from our beloved home in Columbia, Tenn., to Franklin, a Nashville suburb. We were going through boxes as we packed and came across some schoolbooks from my wife’s early elementary-school education. It looked like they were written in a foreign language. You could decipher the words with some difficulty, but they clearly weren’t written in English. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Extortion funding inevitably leads to this... Parents need to fund their own children's education. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-11-03 05:27 |