Re: protest thinking - universities are dying
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There is certainly no talking you out of your negative stereotypical? view of higher education so I wont even try. Let me however suggest why people with higher education collectively lean liberal. To sum it up they know things. No matter what your particular discipline might be , someone who has at least completed a B A generally understands enough about science , economics, history , and other realms of knowledge to see what a con job trickle down economics, identity politics , climate change denial,? spurious claims about pizza parlor basements and the rest of the flim flam that goes around for what it actually is. The biggest problem for higher education is the pricetag. College and for that matter non public highschools and grade schools have become wickedly expensive. My highschool , Holy Cross highschool in River Grove, Il, has long been closed , followed recently by the sister school with which it merged. My Catholic grade school will remain open this year but is on the ropes.? On line education is an option that partly mitigates the problem, and some subjects lend themselves to the format better than others. I dont see universities completely going out of style any time soon , and higher education , in all directions hands on and remote are more needed than ever. Let me tell you what I am doing with myself right now, because I am a few weeks short of 64 years old, retired, and I have? a broken ankle that requires surgery , postponed due to covid. My cable system has The Great Courses. Non college credit? courses taught by professors from all over the country. The offerings include over 250 courses , featuring generally 24, 36 or 48? 30 minute lectures. I have completed over 50 so far , in the areas of history, natural sciences, religious studies, mathematics, philosophy, psychology , Spanish, archeology , and some that defy categorization. My point is that canned and remote learning are part of the picture to stay, but should be a supplement to and a force for inclusion and broader learning , rather than a weapon in some sort of misguided war to stamp out liberalism and so called intellectual elitism. .??
On Saturday, January 23, 2021, 10:14:50 AM CST, jimntempe via groups.io <jimntempe@...> wrote:
RE: The university is dead....
If that is so, how does it continue to teach that all the ills of the world are due to capitalism?? How does it continue to teach conservatives bad, liberals good?? The university isn't dead, it's still teaching hate, anti-freedom, anti-thought, racial division, the list of negatives current universities teach is nearly endless. That it does so without the need for in-person meetings is simply a reflection that the bad people, i.e. current liberals, have taken over all aspects of the universities and that the form the teaching takes doesn't matter.
This might be a good thing because now that the libs have taken over the bricks and morter and hollowed it out they are left with an expensive bit of Real Estate that has been demonstrated to not be needed.? Leaving the conservatives with the option of creating the same sort of "not-in-person" alternate learning venues.? Much cheaper to build a youtube channel than a new endowed building.? What conservatives, indeed anyone still interested in preserving what's good in the world, need to do is put in place the "infrastructure" to make it possible for people to obtain accredited degrees thru almost any reasonable on-line curriculum.?
In modern times that only real purpose for people to go to classic universities was
1) Party
2) get the diploma because that's how you get in the door to the "good" jobs
If you can get 2) thru whatever online school you choose that should be the wave of the future and what conservatives should be working towards.? Of course the brick and mortor? people will fight it every step of the way the same way the lower school systems fight private schools and school choice.? It's a battle that needs to be engaged and won.
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