University Reform

[Thunderbird]

More anti-intellectual hysterics: The 13 Most Ridiculously PC Moments on College Campuses in 2015 , by Katherine Timpf, National Review

 

[Thunderbird]

Let's remove these parasites and lower the cost of tuition:

Taking aim at New York’s academic fat cats

The academic fat cats: Vice-chancellors at Britain's top universities

 

[IsaacNewton]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

 

[martybegan]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

 

[IsaacNewton]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

Yes, let us consider which group is more prone to groupthink. Those who are uneducated and thus are the most easily manipulated, or those who are educated.

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

 

[Thunderbird]

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

Subservience to the PC thought police does not = intelligence. Intolerance does not = education.

Pedestrian minds cling to PC pieties.

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

'Twas always thus with leftists throughout history and always thus will be.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

Subservience to the PC thought police does not = intelligence. Intolerance does not = education.

Pedestrian minds cling to PC pieties.

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

'Twas always thus with leftists throughout history and always thus will be.

You are the end product of Faux News and Fish Dimbaugh making lies seem real.

Congrats.

 

[Thunderbird]

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

Subservience to the PC thought police does not = intelligence. Intolerance does not = education.

Pedestrian minds cling to PC pieties.

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

'Twas always thus with leftists throughout history and always thus will be.

You are the end product of Faux News and Fish Dimbaugh making lies seem real.

Congrats.

You are the excrescence produced by too much exposure to Barney Frank and Joy Behar and other brain dead liberal celebrities.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

Subservience to the PC thought police does not = intelligence. Intolerance does not = education.

Pedestrian minds cling to PC pieties.

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

'Twas always thus with leftists throughout history and always thus will be.

You are the end product of Faux News and Fish Dimbaugh making lies seem real.

Congrats.

You are the excrescence produced by too much exposure to Barney Frank and Joy Behar and other brain dead liberal celebrities.

You sound like you're crying.

Buck up cubby.

 

[martybegan]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

Yes, let us consider which group is more prone to groupthink. Those who are uneducated and thus are the most easily manipulated, or those who are educated.

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

These days going to college does not guarantee an education. I'm sorry but some degree in victim-status studies does not make one an intellectual, and it certainly doesn't make people ready for the job market.

You are confusing the conservative disdain for egghead intellectualism for an actual disdain of intellectual pursuits and knowledge.

Yet you ignore the current PROGRESSIVE trend of college students to want to suppress any dissenting opinion.

Haaaaaaacccccckkkkkk.....

 

[guno]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are“lies straight from the pit of hell,” where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one in three citizens can’t name the vice president, it is beyond dispute that critical thinking has been abandoned as a cultural value

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

 

[guno]

There has been a long history with anti intellectualism in the United States , its current manifestation is in the GOP


The GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge

Buttressing this merger is a vast support structure of media, foundations, pressure groups and even a thriving cottage industry of fake historians and phony scientists. From Fox News to the Discovery Institute (which exists solely to “disprove” evolution), and from the Heritage Foundation (which propagandizes that tax cuts increase revenue despite massive empirical evidence to the contrary) to bogus “historians” like David Barton (who confected a fraudulent biography of a piously devout Thomas Jefferson that had to be withdrawn by the publisher), the anti-knowledge crowd has created an immense ecosystem of political disinformation.

The GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge | BillMoyers.com

 

[Thunderbird]

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

Subservience to the PC thought police does not = intelligence. Intolerance does not = education.

Pedestrian minds cling to PC pieties.

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

'Twas always thus with leftists throughout history and always thus will be.

You are the end product of Faux News and Fish Dimbaugh making lies seem real.

Congrats.

You are the excrescence produced by too much exposure to Barney Frank and Joy Behar and other brain dead liberal celebrities.

You sound like you're crying.

That's left-wing self-proclaimed intellectuals.

 

[Thunderbird]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

Then why don't you go to another country.

Anti-intellectual nitwit (and liberal) Bill Maher: Bill Maher: Anti-Science Knuckle Dragger?

 

[Thunderbird]

Interesting video: 48 Liberal Lies About American History

More fear of facts from liberals elites.

 

[DGS49]

Education Reform (if I were Emperor) (pertains only to publicly-funded institutions):

(1) Eliminate all inter-collegiate sports competitions. They are a huge waste of money and a diversion from the primary mission of the institution. Most college sports programs lose money anyway.

(2) Limit all universities to a maximum of 50 majors. None may include the word, "Studies."

(3) Eliminate tenure. Require that professors teach a minimum of 18 class-hours per week, and minimum class size is 25. Same salary and benefits as other State employees with comparable responsibilities.

(4) Encourage hiring of "adjunct faculty" - part-time instructors with real world knowledge and experience, but no more than 25% of total teaching hours can be done by adjuncts.

(5) De-fund any and all student organizations that are not primarily educational.

(6) Disband all college and university police departments.

(7) Make admissions purely on academic merit, based primarily on standardized testing. High School grades can count for no more than 50% of the evaluation criteria. Essays? Extracurricular activities? Forget about it.

(8) Downsize so that approximately 25% of the state's graduating HS seniors can go to a state college. The rest are simply not "college material," or can go to a private school.

(9) Tuition is ZERO. Books and other materials provided at cost. Dormitory & food provided at zero cost where the student is not able to commute.

(10) Hold classes 11 months per year with "normal" graduation in three years.

(11) BONUS: Shoot everyone who currently holds a position with a title that includes the word, "diversity."

 

[IsaacNewton]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

Yes, let us consider which group is more prone to groupthink. Those who are uneducated and thus are the most easily manipulated, or those who are educated.

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

These days going to college does not guarantee an education. I'm sorry but some degree in victim-status studies does not make one an intellectual, and it certainly doesn't make people ready for the job market.

You are confusing the conservative disdain for egghead intellectualism for an actual disdain of intellectual pursuits and knowledge.

Yet you ignore the current PROGRESSIVE trend of college students to want to suppress any dissenting opinion.

Haaaaaaacccccckkkkkk.....

You live in conservative-media la la land.

Go to your local university or lookup up the curriculum for a 4 year degree. It hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. Chemistry, biology, geology, and other standard requirements. Then you get into specifics for your field.

Con-media has demonized universities with its nonstop lying factory. Because educated people are anathema to current conservative politics.

I feel sorry for anyone who looks at education as a negative. It only enhances life.

 

[Rouge Rover]

Education Reform (if I were Emperor) (pertains only to publicly-funded institutions):

(1) Eliminate all inter-collegiate sports competitions. They are a huge waste of money and a diversion from the primary mission of the institution. Most college sports programs lose money anyway.

(2) Limit all universities to a maximum of 50 majors. None may include the word, "Studies."

(3) Eliminate tenure. Require that professors teach a minimum of 18 class-hours per week, and minimum class size is 25. Same salary and benefits as other State employees with comparable responsibilities.

(4) Encourage hiring of "adjunct faculty" - part-time instructors with real world knowledge and experience, but no more than 25% of total teaching hours can be done by adjuncts.

(5) De-fund any and all student organizations that are not primarily educational.

(6) Disband all college and university police departments.

(7) Make admissions purely on academic merit, based primarily on standardized testing. High School grades can count for no more than 50% of the evaluation criteria. Essays? Extracurricular activities? Forget about it.

(8) Downsize so that approximately 25% of the state's graduating HS seniors can go to a state college. The rest are simply not "college material," or can go to a private school.

(9) Tuition is ZERO. Books and other materials provided at cost. Dormitory & food provided at zero cost where the student is not able to commute.

(10) Hold classes 11 months per year with "normal" graduation in three years.

(11) BONUS: Shoot everyone who currently holds a position with a title that includes the word, "diversity."

Thank God you're not Emperor.

 

[martybegan]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

Yes, let us consider which group is more prone to groupthink. Those who are uneducated and thus are the most easily manipulated, or those who are educated.

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

These days going to college does not guarantee an education. I'm sorry but some degree in victim-status studies does not make one an intellectual, and it certainly doesn't make people ready for the job market.

You are confusing the conservative disdain for egghead intellectualism for an actual disdain of intellectual pursuits and knowledge.

Yet you ignore the current PROGRESSIVE trend of college students to want to suppress any dissenting opinion.

Haaaaaaacccccckkkkkk.....

You live in conservative-media la la land.

Go to your local university or lookup up the curriculum for a 4 year degree. It hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. Chemistry, biology, geology, and other standard requirements. Then you get into specifics for your field.

Con-media has demonized universities with its nonstop lying factory. Because educated people are anathema to current conservative politics.

I feel sorry for anyone who looks at education as a negative. It only enhances life.

Yes, watered down chemistry, biology, etc. I live in the real word, and as an Engineer with a Master's degree I basically torpedo your entire "conservatives hate education" mantra. What we hate is academic track curriculum that only lead to a small # of academic based jobs being considered as viable majors for other work pursuits.

And education for an education's sake is the luxury of the trust fund set, the rest of us should get one that allows us to earn more $$ than the people before us.

 

[IsaacNewton]

An educated population is the enemy of conservatism, as is a population that votes.

Hence the hatred of Universities and this thread.

Considering the trends towards collective thought and punishment of thought outside the groupthink is mostly coming from the left nowadays, your statement is a comical deflection.

Yes, let us consider which group is more prone to groupthink. Those who are uneducated and thus are the most easily manipulated, or those who are educated.

Check with the founders, their view was only an educated population could keep democracy.

Con-media vomits in the ears of the uneducated, saying "beware those who are intelligent, those who go to university, they are your enemy".

'Twas always thus with conservatism throughout history and always thus will be.

These days going to college does not guarantee an education. I'm sorry but some degree in victim-status studies does not make one an intellectual, and it certainly doesn't make people ready for the job market.

You are confusing the conservative disdain for egghead intellectualism for an actual disdain of intellectual pursuits and knowledge.

Yet you ignore the current PROGRESSIVE trend of college students to want to suppress any dissenting opinion.

Haaaaaaacccccckkkkkk.....

You live in conservative-media la la land.

Go to your local university or lookup up the curriculum for a 4 year degree. It hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. Chemistry, biology, geology, and other standard requirements. Then you get into specifics for your field.

Con-media has demonized universities with its nonstop lying factory. Because educated people are anathema to current conservative politics.

I feel sorry for anyone who looks at education as a negative. It only enhances life.

Yes, watered down chemistry, biology, etc. I live in the real word, and as an Engineer with a Master's degree I basically torpedo your entire "conservatives hate education" mantra. What we hate is academic track curriculum that only lead to a small # of academic based jobs being considered as viable majors for other work pursuits.

And education for an education's sake is the luxury of the trust fund set, the rest of us should get one that allows us to earn more $$ than the people before us.

LOL Watered down. Yes explain how you water down chemistry.

Break out of your meme-guided unreality. Chemistry is chemistry.

It's so sad to see people who believe political whackjobs about 'education isn't a good thing'.

Ridiculous, get educated. And stop with the right-wing whining about universities and Hollywood. You aren't that smart and you aren't that creative, live with it. Go dig ditches or something useful.