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Tag Archives: university
6 Years to Get a 4 Year Degree in Leisure Studies
College Is a Joke A Brigham Young University economist was wondering why 6-year graduation rates at 4-year universities had been rising recently. He discovered in a roundabout way that colleges have been “dumbing down” their departments and their degrees. If … Continue reading
Death by Administrative/Bureaucratic Bloat
For thousands of years, administrative bureaucracies have been seen as “necessary evils” by most taxpayers. Without them, it would be impossible to administer or defend cities and nations. But when they grow costly beyond their actual value — as in … Continue reading
Don’t Burn Universities to the Ground; Put them Under the Dome!
The modern university is one of the greatest threats to the future of free societies. In the past, we have reported on calls to “burn universities to the ground,” in an attempt to prevent the rampant corruption on campuses from … Continue reading
The Curdling of the American Mind
Below, Jordan Peterson interviews the two authors of the recently released book “The Coddling of the American Mind:” Watch the first ten minutes of the interview above, and you will understand why I suggest substitution the word “curdling” in place … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Groupthink, University
Tagged leftist idiocy, university
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Universities: Destroying Lives for Ideology and Profit
Student loan debt has grown to overwhelm all other categories of non-housing consumer debt in this nation. __ Source The general public is slowly becoming aware that colleges and universities are destroying young lives. Corrupt university officials are raking in … Continue reading
The Attempted Honour Killing of Jordan B. Peterson
In some traditions, fathers are expected to murder any offspring who have brought dishonour upon the family. This homicidal tradition comes to light most commonly when a Muslim father murders a daughter who has been indiscreet in a sexual way. … Continue reading
First Educate the Child to Thrive in the World
Then if He Wants More Schooling, He Can Pay for It An education into broad personal competence has nothing to do with a college education. College is “schooling,” and most modern degrees in the US are less valuable than a … Continue reading
American Universities Ripe for Neo-Revolution
The Old Revolution is Dead. Long Live Neo-Revolution! American colleges have been devastated by a 50 year revolution that has taken them away from educating students in favour of indoctrinating them. If this ongoing revolution of progressively leftist intolerance proceeds … Continue reading
Safe Spaces for Snowflakes are Melting
Fantasy Landscape of Higher Education Doomed The U.S. Department of Education and Moody’s Investors Service project that in the coming years, closure rates of small colleges and universities will triple, and mergers will double. __ Source And why not close … Continue reading
What Kind of Pathetic Wimps are We Raising?
When we raise kids unaccustomed to facing anything on their own, including risk, failure, and hurt feelings, our society and even our economy are threatened. Yet modern child-rearing practices and laws seem all but designed to cultivate this lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Dangerous Child, Education, Groupthink, University
Tagged risk, university
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Kids Have Got Nothing to Live For
Nothing to Live For? Kids need goals and values. Without them, a natural nihilism sets in which resonates wildly with others of their age cohort. Without direction, without self-discipline, without well developed pre-frontal executive functions, they are lost. And so … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Postmodernism, University
Tagged leftist idiocy, Postmodernism, university
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Can Millenials Be Saved from Themselves?
Message to Millenials University of Toronto professor and licensed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, wants to help the lost generation of millenials — and subsequent generations. Peterson wants to accomplish this by a two-pronged strategy: By starving the corrupt politically correct … Continue reading
Posted in Education, University
Tagged Jordan Peterson, university
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Slay the Monsters, Save the Future: Part I
Modern societies are dying from within, being choked to death by monstrous institutional entities of their own making. The particular monster of today’s discussion is the university, a corrupt bastion of ideological indoctrination, massive misallocation of funds into the $trillions, … Continue reading
Why College Students & Recent Grads Can’t Think
Freshmen and seniors at about 200 colleges across the U.S. take a little-known test every year to measure how much better they get at learning to think. The results are discouraging . From a report: At more than half of … Continue reading
The Incredible Shrinking Left
“We have to teach [people] how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white.” Source The Left’s increasingly violent protesters are Trump’s greatest allies. This reaction by the American public is logical … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Idiocracy, Politics, University
Tagged Groupthink, leftist idiocy, university
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College: Are You Just Wasting Your Time?
Not All Degrees are Created Equal Some degrees allow students to pay back their college loans rather quickly. But more than half of modern four year degrees leave graduates competent to do little more than flip burgers, wait tables, or … Continue reading
Posted in Competence, Dangerous Child, Education, Online Education, University
Tagged university
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Is it Time to Burn Universities to the Ground?
. . . it’s time to burn the universities to the ground … and start over from scratch. __ Robert Tracinski, Speaking Figuratively How leftist professors and administrators are destroying young minds Peter Thiel Exposes Corruptness of University System The … Continue reading
Leftist Alienation in the Age of Trump
Matthew Horn, a software engineer from Boulder, Colo., canceled Christmas plans with his family in Texas. Nancy Sundin, a social worker in Spokane, Wash., has called off Thanksgiving with her mother and brother. Ruth Dorancy, a software designer in Chicago, … Continue reading
Universities Overproducing PhDs
Median Salaries and Employability of PhDs Falling A PhD isn’t what it used to be. Almost 40% of new recipients of PhDs are left with only stopgap jobs or job prospects. Taxi drivers and bartenders, for example, are becoming much … Continue reading
A Thoroughly Corrupt System of Rent-Seeking and Academic Lobotomy, with Some Alternatives
… the cost of university per student has risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, and graduate salaries have been flat for much of the past decade. Student debt has grown so large that it stops … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, university
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World’s Most Innovative Universities
Innovation is the lifeblood of the global economy. It is what drives the advancement of better technologies, improved medicine, streamlined services and most new products and solutions. __ Reuters Notice in Table 1 below, how the world’s most innovative universities … Continue reading
Sneak Peek: College of the Future?
With a 4X higher graduation rate than other similar colleges, Arizona’s Rio Salado College provides a glimpse into some of the innovations that are likely to transform US colleges in the future: There are 600 courses that start on almost … Continue reading
Welcome to Minerva University; No Lectures, No Tenure, No Affirmative Action
A new type of university is opening in San Francisco this month. It will provide no lectures, offer no tenure, and affirmative action is banned. It utilises the best methods of pedagogy that world-renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn has found … Continue reading
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IQ Differences Between Groups, Academic Testing, and Society’s Future
The overlapping IQ distributions by race above demonstrate the simple stratification of normal distributions which appears repeatedly, when such comparisons are made. As we will see below, the same type of group stratification appears when evaluating standard testing academic assessment … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Dysgenics, Education, IQ
Tagged College Admissions Tests, IQ, university
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