Below are some thoughts by NR's Victor Davis Hanson on the state of education in 2011 America, and how the system has been subverted (and destroyed) by the Left...
"We have suffered through decades of declining test scores and rising teachers’ salaries, and we now have a trillion dollars in college loan debt, more remediation for incoming college freshmen, weaker skills apparent in graduating college seniors, an omnipresent -studies curriculum, and a new national dialogue over whether college is even worth it — not just in terms of whether college degrees raise salaries sufficiently to justify huge loans, but whether the new therapeutic race, class, and gender curriculum is antithetical to classical liberal arts with their emphasis on reading, written expression, math, and science.
Modern university education has achieved the dubious result of turning out a self-described sensitive, caring mind that has never been more ignorant of the past and the present. The modern therapeutic university has managed all at once, with its various “centers,” reduced teaching loads, empty faculty research, and legions of new administrators, to put tuition costs beyond the reach of most Americans, to spark an entire new competing industry of no-frills, private, for-profit certificate-granting trade schools, and to end the old idea that a student’s B.A. degree was synonymous with competency or a faculty member’s Ph.D. with wisdom.
We live in an age in which advocates do not believe in their own advocacy: A “planet is doomed” Al Gore refuses to fly economy; a statist John Kerry won’t pay taxes on his yacht unless he is caught; an anti-war Barack Obama won’t honor the War Powers Act he once deified; and the liberal congressional and media establishment will not put their children in the D.C. schools that are the reification of their own ideology.
In short, the generation that came of age in the 1960s succeeded in bringing to life the Frankenstein’s monster it designed in its own image — but suddenly it seems terrified of the very thing it created..."
2 comments:
I'll tell you who I blame for the current BS about college being THE only way to get ahead.
Lyndon B. Johnston!!!
HE was the brainiac who used the term THE RIGHT STUFF.
It was HE who pushed the thought that ONLY the 'educated' could be anything in the last half of the 20th Century. And 'educated' meant college to Johnson, the Astronauts were THE tops in the early 60's, so Mom & Dad America thought Little Johnny was ONLY going to make it IF they went to college.
What a TOTAL crock of fecal matter is that ideal!
I'll repeat something i've been saying since 1963. JFK would never have done as much damage to this country as LBJ did. They shot the wrong guy in Mexas that day.
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