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The basic question is: what is the purpose of college?
Posted on: April 14, 2017 at 09:06:40 CT
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It used to be, to learn.
To grow to expand and to experience other people and other ways of thinking. To become a better and more educated person. That in turn would lead to better paying jobs. But the purpose generally was to learn.
Today, with not only classes but majors and Chicano studies, puppeteering, black victimization, radical women's studies and the like, there is no education happening. It is indoctrination into a liberal ideology.
I told my son when he was younger, that he could be anything he wanted to be. He could be a garbage man if he chose. But he would be the best educated garbage man in America. Education is important even if it doesn't directly lead to a great income.
I would argue that learning pre-Colombian American history is broadening. So is French literature from the 19th century. Worthy pursuits in my opinion. If you have money already.
The waste of time in my opinion, is not on history or literature, it is on radical political indoctrination, where the time and money spent in college are not only not productive, they are counterproductive to both a richer life and a better job.
To grow to expand and to experience other people and other ways of thinking. To become a better and more educated person. That in turn would lead to better paying jobs. But the purpose generally was to learn.
Today, with not only classes but majors and Chicano studies, puppeteering, black victimization, radical women's studies and the like, there is no education happening. It is indoctrination into a liberal ideology.
I told my son when he was younger, that he could be anything he wanted to be. He could be a garbage man if he chose. But he would be the best educated garbage man in America. Education is important even if it doesn't directly lead to a great income.
I would argue that learning pre-Colombian American history is broadening. So is French literature from the 19th century. Worthy pursuits in my opinion. If you have money already.
The waste of time in my opinion, is not on history or literature, it is on radical political indoctrination, where the time and money spent in college are not only not productive, they are counterproductive to both a richer life and a better job.
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The basic question is: what is the purpose of college? - hokie VT - 4/14 09:06:40