Raynine
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I have an observation to make about many college-educated people in the US.
My city is limping and I think I know why. At some point around 1957 the Russians launched a beachball sized contraption with antennae they called Sputnik. It went into orbit and made a beep. The beep could be detected by radio, and the little sphere could be seen on radar. It could be viewed by a naked eye if the viewer was young enough. This event sent the hierarchy of the US into apoplexy! Stark warnings appeared: “The Russians are dropping us like a bad habit in math and science!” “We need to catch up by sending everyone to college!”
Math and engineering institutions did not change much, but liberal arts colleges like the one in my city began popping up on every street corner. They became as common as the phone booths of the 50’s and 60’s. Academics came out of the woodwork like cockroaches from under a kitchen sink. They began offering all kinds of idiosyncratic educational content after most curriculums were dumbed down to accommodate student bodies that were never college material in the original sense. Four extra years of high school became the norm at most liberal arts campuses, and a cottage industry of schizophrenic re-education gripped the country like the brain damage that comes with lead exposure.
Why would this happen? Well, do you think the purpose of education in America shifted from producing useful, trained citizens to maintaining guaranteed employment for educators if there were enough suckers to line up for the plan? The bizarre rabbit holes US education has gone down offer a sobering indictment of a system that has gone off the rails! Political conspiratorial propagandizing quickly took over in education, and things like Diversity, equity and Inclusion stood in for standard training. Lunacy like toxic masculinity and women’s studies, divided minds and pitted the sexes against one another. The young are as lonely and rudderless as ever. This has done real damage.
American education has broadsided America in a way the Russians never dreamed of. When a farmer buys manure from a manure salesman, he knows what he is getting. But when US liberal arts colleges repackage manure and sell it to students as food, we are in trouble as a nation.
Maybe it’s time to make some real changes before it is too late.
My city is limping and I think I know why. At some point around 1957 the Russians launched a beachball sized contraption with antennae they called Sputnik. It went into orbit and made a beep. The beep could be detected by radio, and the little sphere could be seen on radar. It could be viewed by a naked eye if the viewer was young enough. This event sent the hierarchy of the US into apoplexy! Stark warnings appeared: “The Russians are dropping us like a bad habit in math and science!” “We need to catch up by sending everyone to college!”
Math and engineering institutions did not change much, but liberal arts colleges like the one in my city began popping up on every street corner. They became as common as the phone booths of the 50’s and 60’s. Academics came out of the woodwork like cockroaches from under a kitchen sink. They began offering all kinds of idiosyncratic educational content after most curriculums were dumbed down to accommodate student bodies that were never college material in the original sense. Four extra years of high school became the norm at most liberal arts campuses, and a cottage industry of schizophrenic re-education gripped the country like the brain damage that comes with lead exposure.
Why would this happen? Well, do you think the purpose of education in America shifted from producing useful, trained citizens to maintaining guaranteed employment for educators if there were enough suckers to line up for the plan? The bizarre rabbit holes US education has gone down offer a sobering indictment of a system that has gone off the rails! Political conspiratorial propagandizing quickly took over in education, and things like Diversity, equity and Inclusion stood in for standard training. Lunacy like toxic masculinity and women’s studies, divided minds and pitted the sexes against one another. The young are as lonely and rudderless as ever. This has done real damage.
American education has broadsided America in a way the Russians never dreamed of. When a farmer buys manure from a manure salesman, he knows what he is getting. But when US liberal arts colleges repackage manure and sell it to students as food, we are in trouble as a nation.
Maybe it’s time to make some real changes before it is too late.
