That Expensive Education

16 Replies to “That Expensive Education”

1. People who come up with this twaddle have waaaaaaaay too much time on their hands….

2. There’s about five minutes I’ll never get back.

3. “You keep using that word,it may not mean what you think it does”.
   Education when used by Progressives, means come to cowtow to their point of view.
   Ignorance and arrogance being the key ingredients of their “Knowledge”.
   Our universities are living proof of this stupidity.

4. One comment paraphrased it PERFECTLY – “the left were/are not educated, they were/are processed”.

5. Much like sausage where a consistent uniform product is required.

6. When I was a child … ‘make-believe’ time was FUN and light hearted. Now, the ‘make-believe’ invented by leftists is DARK, cold, and hateful. As I grew-up, I weaned myself off the mental crutch of ‘make-believe’ time. Not so for the left … they have never evolved into adulthood. They remain mired in pretend time.

7. I am still in awe that the left has managed to convince so many people that you somehow end racism and inequality by actively promoting racism and inequality.
   After hearing a Rex Murphy rant on how it was laughable to think Hillary was on her own accord breaking ANY kind of ceiling, I was reflecting just how hard the left fights to avoid discussion of the clear advantages women already enjoy in many areas of society. Feminist groups in N America seem to be made up of purely self-entitled, self-righteous twats. They repeatedly demonstrate that their true motive is maintaining and growing their own privilege, not helping the downtrodden masses of women around the globe.
   To that end, I was also wondering if when Og’s caveman father broke his first attempt at spear-making with a disgusted “Ughh” and threw it in the fire, did Og carry deep emotional scars for the rest of his life? Did he grow up unable to efficiently hunt and then start an addiction to fermented berries? When exactly did we start raising such fragile offspring that they grow into these fragile butterflies? Let me offer a politically incorrect suggestion….. there are too many feminized women(and metro-sexual males)in our public education system, they are training the “men” right out of our boys.

8. Move over Vagina Monologues,we now have Anus Monologues.

9. Aside from the preferred option of completely replacing Arts faculties with library cards, perhaps undergraduate degrees should be exclusively comprised of the classics, period. It’s obvious that what passes for study these days is irrational nihilism, a poor substitute for knowledge.

10. It’s rather hard to earn a living as an engineer or geologist with a B. Sc. that’s comprised of the classics. Familiarity with “The Iliad” is of limited use when calculating the loading of structural members.

11. Ha ! I see what you did there … and I expect they wear HATS while they’re speaking as well …

12. Agreed … EXCEPT ! …
    I have discovered that godlike building officials like to “toy” with us mere mortals by sending us on idiotic errands through the building codes. So, understanding that there is a really BEAUTIFUL queen (my local bank teller) at the end of the quest … helps motivate me. Otherwise, I might just steer for the rocks

13. A Dalhousie University nursing graduate from P.E.I. says her recent research shows bisexual female students are more likely to be depressed and turn to binge drinking and drugs than other students.
    Substance abuse, suicide, incarceration and mental issues have always been a problem with the GQBLT cult.
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bisexual-female-students-more-likely-090013464.html?nhp=1

14. It’s rather hard to earn a living as an engineer or geologist with a B. Sc. that’s comprised of the classics.
    No one is suggesting “comprised of” but in the dark ages of the 1970’s as a physics major, I, along with everyone else, was required to have a minimum of 4 semesters of English, 4 of a language, 4 of electives not related to the major. Non STEM majors were required to have 2 of math and 2 of a hard science. That is 2 of English and all of language could be waived if the English SAT was high enough, and language proficiency demonstrated.
    The minimum requirement was, therefore, 36 credit hours, leaving 84 for major and major related electives to meet the minimum graduation requirement. Plenty of time for the Iliad (which used to be a high school topic). The idea is to have a well rounded education for everyone.
    The converse of what you are suggesting is having, as we do, social “science” majors who thought science and math were useless for community organizing or whatever other necromancy they do, who are innumerate, don’t know that the Germans didn’t bomb Pear Harbor, and couldn’t tell you the molecular weight of CO2 even with a gun to their heads.

15. Wally – also remember those days. The non-STEM crowd were given special courses (ie no labs for science courses) which the STEM crowd were not allowed to take. However, STEM students taking the requisite arts courses found themselves in regular arts courses and up against arts majors in the competition for marks. Needless to say, much information circulated among STEM majors as to which arts courses required the least work – after all, when one is already taking three lab courses, there’s a limited amount of time available for working on the non-STEM stuff.
    And it’s not as if special courses couldn’t be designed for the STEM crowd – a good basic report writing as an English course would have been much appreciated.

16. I know all about it as I went through the same nonsense myself in the 1970s. On the whole, I think the arts options that I took for my B. Sc. were useless, though, thankfully, I forgot most of what I was taught. (In one course, the prof didn’t hesitate to show his contempt for engineering students, which didn’t go over well with us.)
    I only selected them because those were the only ones that I could fit into my timetable. Any appreciation I have for artistic matters I acquired after I finished my undergrad studies and that was by my choice.