tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1795618932714433935..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Why Johnny Can't ThinkStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4761256906538534662015-04-09T20:45:24.174-07:002015-04-09T20:45:24.174-07:00"Lately, the venerable magazine seems to have..."Lately, the venerable magazine seems to have become more liberal, more interested in advancing a point of view than in reporting fact."<br />True since the 90s when I dumped it over its hysteria over CAGW (my background is in Physics). My reason was simple: there is never one roach (false in one; false in all).<br /><br />"Higher education is supposed to prepare students to enter the business world."<br />I'm a reactionary. I believe that the purpose of education is to educate not act as a vocational school.<br /><br />"In non-STEM subjects, colleges and universities seem more concerned with proselytizing political correctness and diversity."<br />Even back in the 70s that was true. In my course sociology was the worst but no where could you escape it.<br /><br />Recently, I helped someone get through an "Environmental Chemistry" class. The textbook and homework were shot through with false accounts of the chemistry of "acid rain," CO2 acidifying the ocean, etc. I could get the correct answers to the exercises but I had to point out to the student that these reactions don't actually happen the way portrayed...<br /><br />The future appears very dark to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47887345507592449582015-04-06T12:02:30.481-07:002015-04-06T12:02:30.481-07:00Its interesting that this blog topic is called &qu...Its interesting that this blog topic is called "Why Johnny Can't Think", while in fact now more women go to college than men. So this "indoctrination process" is apparently brainwashing more women than men.<br /><br />Like this poll:<br />http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-college-enrollment-gains-leave-men-behind/<br />----<br />In 1994, 63% of recent female high school graduates and 61% of male recent high school graduates were enrolled in college in the fall following graduation. By 2012, the share of young women enrolled in college immediately after high school had increased to 71%, but it remained unchanged for young men at 61%.<br />----------<br /><br />Also note the article above showed Asian-Americans had 86% of women starting college immediately after high school, and 83% of Asian-American men, whether they focus higher STEM majors we don't know from that poll.<br /><br />But back to the gender divide, if we add "women don't generally marry down", the status of college degrees means a smaller number of college educated men have their pick of a larger number of college educated women. <br /><br />You might imagine this is going to make for future resentment in women when they discover this "male privilege", especially if they let their co-graduates grab up all the quality men soon after graduation and they're left with the losers to date in their 30's after their careers are established.<br /><br />Meanwhile the previous blog was asking if women are more emotional, and men more rational. Perhaps you could say more emotional women in college means less accountability for non-STEM professors who can spout their subjective closed-loop ideologies like Women's studies to more compliant students, who are interested in feeling good, or dividing the world between simple "good" and "bad" as long as the bad is someone else's responsibility, over challenging by rationally superior male students? <br /><br />Well, there are lots of fun ways to spin possible interpretations.<br /><br />Back to the start, ideally university is supposed to teach young people to think better, and if professors do their job well, they will fail in indoctrinating their students to any ideology, rather expose them to a wide enough breadth of views that helps them keep an open mind.<br /><br />And so the real threat a college education offers might be to religions which can be dismissed as just another belief system that isn't needed by enlightened modern peoples. <br /><br />But fortunately we still have religious colleges to protect our vulnerable youth to throwing out all belief with their exuberance in critical thinking, as well as giving them a moral education that will benefit governments and employers alike.<br /><br />I admit I don't know if Employers look at religious colleges as a sign of status?Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58098005862709537452015-04-06T11:40:15.686-07:002015-04-06T11:40:15.686-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2688016612412142472015-04-06T08:45:11.986-07:002015-04-06T08:45:11.986-07:00The function of the university is to provide footb...The function of the university is to provide football for the alumni, parking for the faculty and sex for the students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com