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| The Admission Scam Is Another Reason To Destroy Academia As We Know It |
| 2019-04-04 |
| [Townhall] American college is terrible and, as a society, we should stop doing it ‐ at least how it is being currently done. The greatest benefit of a system where most citizens are pushed to get college educations, whether they truly need and want one or not, would be a society of really smart, informed, and engaged citizens. Do you see that happening? No, you do not. Instead, we have a bunch of people who are dragged down by crushing debt after wasting years of their youth chasing a piece of paper that often has no relationship to these graduates’ futures. Compounding the failure is how these grads march off campus infatuated with ridiculous commie notions abhorrent to a free people. The college system is a disaster ‐ an expensive disaster that picks our pockets as well as those of the suckers who matriculate ‐ and we should stop tolerating it. Time for conservatives to reform academia the hard way, and by "reform" I mean, "Destroy it, sow the campuses with salt, and rebuild academia into something that isn’t useless." About 99% of current college grads will feel that "sow with salt" line zoom over their empty heads. Most of them probably think "Carthage" is a rapper, or maybe a lesser Kardashian. The college admission scandal, where a herd of rich Democrat donors paid a ton of dough to get their half-wit progeny into Snooty U, was the perfect encapsulation of how big a rip-off college really is. Did you notice how the parents forked over cash to get Junior into school because Junior scored 112 on his SAT and then...Junior stayed in the elite school with no problem? You might think that if these schools were rigorous institutions of higher learning instead of ruling class credential rubber-stump machines, they might flunk out? But no. When the internet famous daughter of that (former) Full House / Hallmark-movie-about-a-widow-finding-love-with-a sexy-carpenter-at-Christmas starlet Lori Loughlin was busted, she was literally sailing around the Bahamas on a yacht owned by a USC trustee. I guess she needed a break from her work carrying on Dr. Ha |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Just think if you'd learned set theory. why RDB's are done the way they are. Formal logic, discrete maths. All the foundations you can work IT art around when architecting. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-04 16:10 |
| #8 Been there done that. First after graduation I worked for Social Security with my Poli Sci degree, lasted 1 year before I left screaming for the wilderness and became a nail banger. 6 years later Jimmuh tanked the economy so I went to Control Data Institute and became a programmer, 30 plus years later I retired to a pretty comfortable life. Back in the 60's - 70's college wasn't the financial chasm it is today so I don't really resent the cost. I did learn a few good things. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-04-04 14:32 |
| #7 I'd have setup an alternative credentialling system for IT, then got other proper trades to join in. Teach the theory, show why it's useful in business, hint at some of the "art" it leads to. There's a beauty to a nicely written program, that most artists cannot even begin to comprehend. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-04 12:36 |
| #6 There's always the 2-yr vocational college option. Hillsdale College is another good option. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-04-04 10:42 |
| #5 What has happened to universities over the years is infuriating. There is far to much government influence in universities from phony admission scams to phony research schemes. Government regulations, political agendas and money taint the universities. Otherwise, what Raj said about becoming an electrician (except unions often taint this profession too). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-04-04 10:02 |
| #4 Worth remembering. Guess what the median grade at Harvard is. Go on, guess. Our most rigorous school, right? It should be really hard, right? Lots of “C” and “B” grades because of said rigor, right? It’s an “A-.” The median grade at Harvard is an “A-,” which is supposed to be “outstanding.” But a Harvard A- is not “outstanding.” It is the default. Think about it. Half the grades at Harvard are “A-” or above. Would you give our ruling class an “A-”? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-04-04 09:15 |
| #3 I guess she needed a break from her work carrying on Dr. Hawking’s particle physics research. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-04-04 09:05 |
| #2 Make the colleges 100% liable for student loans in case of a default. I believe Trump proposed something like that, at least partially. If I had to do it over again in this environment, I'd punt and probably take up being an electrician. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-04-04 08:49 |
| #1 Funding should be neutral, if not paid back AND the enrolled should earn more than those who didn't go PLUS the interest on graduating. If they do not hit these figures the degree credentialling place should eat the cost. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-04-04 08:36 |