25 Replies to “What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?”

    1. “poorly educated”

      Do you mean those not marinated in Marxist theory for three or four years, or those who understand that you can’t run a high-tech civilization off windmills and solar panels?

      Or is it a bit of both?

      Also a reminder, Harvard and Columbia are both specifically targeted because of -violent-terrorist-actions- taken by foreign students and the complete lack of disciplinary measured taken by the universities. The schools have in fact encouraged the terrorist violence and asked them to do it more.

      Same thing at Canadian universities. If you’ve got a placard that says “from the r1ver to the s3a!!!” you can burn a car and nobody will do anything, but show up with one that says “minors cannot consent to puberty blockers” and you will instantly get arrested.

      I look forward to seeing these “intellectuals” and “academics” participating in the private sector along with the rest of us as soon as possible. Flipping burgers, perhaps. Or maybe they can learn to code…

      1. Why bother with dizzy He lives up to his name as there is never a practical comment from him.
        Typical Liberal/Marxist.

  5. Here’s something that never occurred to me until now. Why are all these Chinese undergraduate students going to universities in foreign countries?

    It’s not like China can’t put up enough buildings, buy enough textbooks, and hire enough teachers to teach most bog-standard undergraduate level courses and a lot of master’s level courses. Math, physics, biology, chemistry, accounting basics, engineering and whatnot have not changed much over the years and new ideas in those fields are added incrementally and widely published. And I don’t think all the Chinese students are taking ‘studies’ courses.

    Nope. The students are sent to keep their eyes peeled for useful IP (Intellectual property) and send it back home. They also serve as ambassadors of “China Ain’t All So Bad” and are in position to support Chinese interests in foreign countries as well as spy on their fellow Chinese students.

    I’ve always understood this for the graduate student level. It just never occurred to me that the same could be true of the undergraduate students with average IQs still being useful, just less so than the grad students. And, with a bit of luck, the students might get hired on in some company, get to stay in the foreign country, and possibly glean some IP nuggets from their employer’s operations.

    Of course, China does need some brighter undergraduate students in the pipeline to move up to the graduate programs.

    1. H.R.
      It isn’t just China that plays like that, they all do, including western countries.
      It’s sad you are just realizing that!

      1. GYM you ignorant slut.
        There is zero comparison to be made.
        Every single dink is compelled to at least keep their eyes open – except when they’re driving.
        Stop looking up your bung hole and look up United Front.

      2. Yeah, there are tens of thousands of Americans going to Chinese universities.

  6. That would be good news if there were less insufferable midwits around.

    Universities and colleges could not only carry civilization forward which was their original mandate centuries ago, but they could be incubators for new ideas that improve civilization.

    Drop the midwits, cut student enrollment by 80% and focus.

  8. In the 70s, Iranian students were everywhere, especially in small private liberal arts colleges. They all disappeared after the Islamic takeover.

    1. Persians. Persian students. When my daughter attended UCLA there were gobs of the children of those 1970’s Persian students who had fled Iran with The Shah. All good people. Well $$$ endowed.

  9. The educational industrial complex is just as dangerous as any other.. To the point where the compete with Congress for control of the country.. Its true..

    Ask yourself.. Are we handing jobs to whatever falls out of colleges and Universities?.. All those social workers didn’t come out of nowhere.. Did we really need them and what has this done to our legal system?.. Even green energy engineers falling out of school by the thousands every year..

    All these people need turn key jobs.. We call this growth.. But what’s driving it?.. Demand or the fact that unemployed professionals are falling out of school.. Canada just declared free dental care :).. Is that a necessity or do we have a glut in capacity?.. Look what’s falling out of our schools..

    So who is running the show?.. Academia feeds the politicians the jobs they need to appear to be successful..

    1. “The educational industrial complex is just as dangerous as any other.. To the point where the compete with Congress for control of the country.”

      And the Oval Office.
      Election night Democrat commentators were banging on about all the university student votes for Harris that would turn the tide.

  10. “95 to 105 IQ”, “midwits”. Some folks don’t know much about higher education. Also, why would people of average or modestly better get an education?
    Phoney elitism based on a test they studied for.

    1. The smarter you are, the stupider university looks, and the harder it is to sit in the lectures without asking barbed questions.

      I claim no great genius of my own, but the number of times I’ve sat through lectures that were delivered by -morons- who did not even understand their own presentation, it would make you scream.

      I particularly recall one on the actions of the parts of muscle cells that makes them pull. After naming all the parts, the presenter (who should have bloody well known how it worked, given her credentials were MD/PhD Microbiology) essentially said “And then this bit here flips, and that makes it pull.”

      My hand goes up immediately, “What makes it flip?” says I. “It costs energy, so what makes it move?” Well, she didn’t know, and what annoyed me more was that she also didn’t know who was working on the issue or where to find out more, or who even discovered the flippy bit she was talking about, and found the question irrelevant, irritating and out of line. This was a lecture somebody , maybe her or maybe one of her grad students, had thrown together out of a textbook. She didn’t know -jack- about it and cared less. And there I was, paying handsomely and working like a donkey putting out paper after pointless research paper, for the privilege of having this beeotch waste my time with her half-assed efforts.

      Compare and contrast to this COMPLETELY FREE lecture on a similar subject put up on Youtube. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rotary+cell+motor&atb=v226-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVPSm9gJkPxU

      Currently I am learning precision machining at the University of YouTube, and guitar as well. I don’t get a diploma, but I don’t have to sit through ridiculous wastes of my time and it’s FREEEE as well, so I’m pretty pleased overall.

      1. // at the University of YouTube, … I don’t get a diploma, but//

        A lot of higher education is about certification.
        An innovation worth persuing would be the establishment of exams for
        graduates of YouTubeU.

        1. “A lot of higher education is about certification.”

          Yes, I know. That’s what I just spent that whole comment saying. The student is not being educated in the subject matter for it’s own sake, or even for the student’s sake. The student is paying for a ticket to a job.

          “An innovation worth persuing would be the establishment of exams for
          graduates of YouTubeU.”

          I believe a much better innovation would be the rendering of academic certifications obsolete.
          Does McDonalds -really- need a college degree to train some kid to be a floor manager? No. They need to train the kid and if he flunks out they can eat the cost themselves instead of taking it out of my taxes in “higher education.” Does the gas company really need a welder certified to TIG on gas pipes? No, they need to TEST HIM and see if his welding is up to snuff. Because the GAS COMPANY is the one that bears the responsibility if there is an accident/broken weld/leak what have you. Not the freaking welder.

          To put it bluntly, dizzy, certification is an effort to remove the humanity from the hiring process. One certified gas welder is the same as the next. He’s a replaceable unit. Slot Unit A in Job A, run it until it breaks, replace.

          Always remember my little socialist, when everybody is special, no one is.

          1. You are not wrong. Well not entirely. I got a degree in biology because it interested me, though there were no jobs for biology BScs at that time. My higher degree was more directly useful, though I chose not to take the job I had become uniquely qualified for.
            It’s a shame really, some of my kids went to uni. And it is not what it was. I guess nothing is.

  11. Funny thing … even the hardcore leftist State of CA (UC system) capped foreign and out of State students at 18% throughout the system. Why? Because 1st Priority must accrue to State residents. But the UC campuses LOVE the DOUBLE $$ tuition they get from non-resident students.

    https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-board-regents-approves-policy-nonresident-student-enrollment

    And then … they planned an even deeper cut of out of State students to free up space for CA residents …

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-25/bold-plan-for-uc-admissions-reduce-out-of-state-students

  12. I would very much like to see them all go out of business, and their credentials with them.

    I’ve had THREE tries at higher education, once Anthropology which was perhaps once worth studying but now certainly is not, once for Architecture which is almost entirely a scam to separate rich kids from their parents money and thankfully I found that out early, and once for Physical Therapy, wherein the educational process is entirely a scam even if the job is not.

    The one foray I’ve had into “higher education” that was not 95% BS was welding. That was useful. I really did learn to weld, and braze with gas, and use a plasma cutter, etc. Fabulously worth the cost and time invested.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation