Zone1 How to be educated and not indoctrinated

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Theres nothing you can challenge in my post though.

It's hard to argue with the musings of the demented, which make no sense anyway.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The worst thing Obama did was to have the federal government take over student loans... it quadrupled tuition fees and since our public schools failed to educate the kids... Universities created worthless majors so the stupid kids could get in and go into debt so deep it takes decades to repay their loans as they flip burgers for a living... who wins?... the universities.... and democrat politicians who get donations from them...

I think you left out the word "private" in front of universities. Public universities don't donate to political candidates.

 

[Kyrion]

Why conservatives hate higher learning is fairly easy to understand:

1. It is the first time when people get to live outside of the control of their authoritarian conservative parents. That sort of personal freedom highlights how oppressive and hypocritical their home life was and they put two and two together to abandon conservatism.
2. Colleges have a more diverse population that most of America has, which results in people with bigotries groomed into them by their parents or pastors to be directly exposed and defeated.
3. Higher learning isn't root memorization and instead teaches you how to think critically and rationally. It teaches introspection and to question oneself and to apply empiricism on life itself in addition to whatever degree you are getting. All of which is anathema to conservatism.
4. College is about expanding human knowledge on a wide field of data and information, to which, conservatism has nothing to offer on. The reason why you don't see conservative professors is the reason why we don't see scientists arguing against germ theory. Unless you can advance human knowledge you don't have any purpose in college as conservatism as an ideology rebukes new ideas out of habit.

 

[Unkotare]

Why conservatives hate higher learning is...

False premise. You fail.

 

[Unkotare]

... how oppressive and hypocritical their home life was ...

False premise. You fail again.

 

[Unkotare]

... they put two and two together to abandon conservatism.
...

Factually wrong.

 

[Unkotare]

...
2. Colleges have a more diverse population that most of America has...

Also wrong.

 

[Kyrion]

False premise. You fail.

Thanks for admitting that I was right.

 

[Unkotare]

...
3. Higher learning isn't root [sic] memorization...

"Rote"

Education, eh?

 

[Unkotare]

... instead teaches you how to think critically and rationally...

No, it expects you to use that kind of thinking. You should bring that with you to higher education.

 

[Kyrion]

No, it expects you to use that kind of thinking. You should bring that with you to higher education.

Yes, it teaches you that kind of thinking.

 

[Unkotare]

.... It teaches introspection and to question oneself and to apply empiricism on life itself ...

Don't just toss around words you don't really understand. It does not have the effect you're hoping it will.

 

[Kyrion]

Don't just toss around words you don't really understand. It does not have the effect you're hoping it will.

Thanks again for admitting that I was right. I appreciate the help.

 

[Unkotare]

... College is about expanding human knowledge on a wide field of data and information, to which, conservatism has nothing to offer on. ...

Holy crap, what a mess. Was that supposed to be a sentence? You need to work on your English before you worry about college.

 

[Unkotare]

Thanks for admitting that I was right.

I didn't. Is English your first language?

 

[Unkotare]

Yes, it teaches you that kind of thinking.

You should have acquired that before you got to college. If you hadn't, you weren't ready to be there.

 

[Kyrion]

You should have acquired that before you got to college. If you hadn't, you weren't ready to be there.

Which means you didn't go to college or know how this works. Good job!

 

[Unkotare]

Thanks again for admitting that I was right. I appreciate the help.

Again, I did not. Do you feel alright?

 

[Unkotare]

Which means you didn't go to college or know how this works. ...

No, that's not what it means.

 

[Kyrion]

No, that's not what it means.

Yes, that is what it means. You just cannot keep up.