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Monday, November 27, 2023
How to Reverse Higher Ed’s Decline
At long last, American education reformers are beginning to build a network of history and government professors who are dedicated to teaching, not advancing a radical political agenda. Private institutions such as the Jack Miller Center have brought together a cohort of tradition-minded professors, both liberal and conservative. Now, public support has led to the creation of new civics institutions at public universities to house these professors, where they can teach a new generation of Americans, especially K-12 social studies teachers, about the true nature of the ideals and institutions of America and the West. Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas will soon be producing professors who love learning and love their country and can reclaim their professions.
My opinion? Bugger that. The universities are beyond "recovery" Strip the universities of their endowments, transfer the bulk of their "Intellectual Property" into the public domain, have the administrators and the professors of the most depraved, wicked and useless classes publicly flogged, the Diversity departments scourged, and transfer the property titles to a joint trust administrated by the Society of Saint Pius V and the ROCOR. (Making Catholics and Ortho's cooperate. Worth it for the lulz alone, but will also help prevent mismanagement). That would be a good start. The commies, perverts and Moloch worshippers have owned academia for too long. A purge is the only solution.
ReplyDeleteHomeschoolers, please come back. We have new old style teachers.
ReplyDeleteThe check is in the mail. Yada yada yada
Homeschooling varies wildly and ranges from educational neglect to overachievers that were being held back in school; because of this, a home-school education is generally viewed as a dice roll with no guarantees. A lack of social development can also be nasty side effects of homeschooling.
DeleteSauce: I endured home-schooling and I have no intention of ever inflicting it upon any kids I might have in the future.
- Arc
colleges have become a glorified welfare system for 4 years. Anybody can get a loan and live on the taxpayer dime away from home. The students fakes their surprise. I have a history degree and I am 200K in debt. College student cannot find a job. The college does not care because they got their money. Their needs to be a way to tie the loan payoff to the school. But I am sure that would make me a racist no matter what the race of the student is. I think some people go to college thinking it is an extension of high school and they just have to graduate and a job handed to them. Some are looking for a husband or wife and might not need to graduate. I think a lot would benefit from vocational school but if that happens I am sure it would go the way of colleges. A bunch a people that dont know their trades.
ReplyDeleteStep one...get rid of the Federal Department of Education. It didn't exist prior to 1980 and our education system was far superior then to what it is now.
ReplyDeleteFund universities with a % of their graduates paycheck and watch how fast high-paying STEM fields become the hot new trend while the fluff falls to the side.
ReplyDeleteThe decline is due to colleges having caught on to the fact that students are merely buying the degree and college experience. Just about every scrap of knowledge in a school is also in a public library or dirt cheap on Ebay and Amazon. Educational institutions, like the mainstream media, are desperately trying to cling to what little influence they still have as it evaporates into the ether. The schools are trying to turn out as many graduates as they can because more graduates is more money. A college degree held little weight with me but now it's effectively meaningless.
Universities are also adapting to lower quality students and diversity, gotta lower the standards to make it "equitable". K-12 is watered down as well, kids show up without being able to read, write, or perform reasonable levels of math.
Millennials and zoomers have realized we are in late-stage capitalism / FIAT and they have simply ceased to care. We are not interested in following our parents off the cliff of slaving for a nothing-burger and existing only to work. I caught onto this late but now that I see it, I refuse to wait until I'm old and decrepit to go enjoy life. I'm not guaranteed another breath on this earth, much less retirement.
- Arc