Pedro de San Patricio
Gold Member
So I didn't really get a good education back home. It was honestly mostly my fault. (I showed up pretty much when I wanted throughout senior year and graduated high school with something like a 1.7 GPA). Now that I have a decent job in the military and a place to live I've been thinking a lot about trying to further my education. That just seems like the next logical step after escaping from backwards Southern poverty, you know? It's just... I've been weighing the pros and cons of it...
On the one hand, it'd be an interesting experience and I've always been in love with learning. (Seriously, despite the above I taught myself Latin in art class and spent my personal time reading Cicero and learning genetics and history.) That a degree is basically mandatory for any civilian job worth having also helps. On the other, even liberals I know tell me the rumors of censorship and intolerance are, in many cases, more true than not. I don't really want to waste the tax payers' money (my GI Bill) learning and pretending to go along with why some nutjob professor thinks Hamas is a misunderstood social justice organization just to get a degree in Arabic, and I really don't think I could handle having to pick between endorsing left wing causes (especially the more extreme elements like abortion, feminism, and Communism) or shutting up and keeping my head down.
Is it really worth four years of total marginalization/indoctrination just to have a shot at any kind of quality standard of living? Are there any schools actually about teaching students how to think rather than what to believe? How could someone go about enrolling there?
On the one hand, it'd be an interesting experience and I've always been in love with learning. (Seriously, despite the above I taught myself Latin in art class and spent my personal time reading Cicero and learning genetics and history.) That a degree is basically mandatory for any civilian job worth having also helps. On the other, even liberals I know tell me the rumors of censorship and intolerance are, in many cases, more true than not. I don't really want to waste the tax payers' money (my GI Bill) learning and pretending to go along with why some nutjob professor thinks Hamas is a misunderstood social justice organization just to get a degree in Arabic, and I really don't think I could handle having to pick between endorsing left wing causes (especially the more extreme elements like abortion, feminism, and Communism) or shutting up and keeping my head down.
Is it really worth four years of total marginalization/indoctrination just to have a shot at any kind of quality standard of living? Are there any schools actually about teaching students how to think rather than what to believe? How could someone go about enrolling there?