tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1406183700971864151..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Rigging the College Admissions SystemStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-66902777919705614752012-12-26T13:28:20.645-08:002012-12-26T13:28:20.645-08:00I suspect we will see a massive backlash to the co...I suspect we will see a massive backlash to the cost of college and graduate school in the coming decade. There are only two economic sectors where costs have exceeded the rate of inflation every year since World War II: medicine and higher education. People are going to start asking what they"re getting for the $100-200K they're shelling out to give their children a ticket into the economic middle class, because I'm not sure that's a guaranteed strategy anymore. Just watch. People are not going to write a blank check to receive credentials with minimal economic utility... like the classic liberal arts, with its ever-expanding litany of marginal areas of study in contemporary victimhood. College campuses are not only populated with intolerance, they're also reservations for the oddest thinkers among us. It's a form of welfare for weirdos... a theme park for the Land of Make Believe. The value of the traditional undergraduate college education is questionable with so many educational alternatives emerging that will actually support the value of critical thinking skills instead of deconstructionist drivel which is predictably irrational and silly. What do you do with a prestigious four-year degree and $150K in student debt after being told to follow your bliss studying "mulatto Wiccan medieval lesbian textile manufacturing standards and communal acceptance in lowland Scotland"??? It may be a un thing to do on mommy and daddy's dime (or Obama's, which means its ours), but after four years rejecting the ways of bourgeois America, you'd think they might eventually want to strike out on their own. College does not prepare them with the wisdom of what it means to lead a better life. Rather, more often students move on with skills on how to identify the marginalized people in their midst and explain why it's Bush's fault. How adorable, until they're back living at home for the remainder of their salad days.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-49093027817760332812012-12-26T11:53:49.487-08:002012-12-26T11:53:49.487-08:00"...ROTC, 4-H Clubs, Future Farmers of Americ..."...ROTC, 4-H Clubs, Future Farmers of America, and various similar organizations." These would signify "rural; small-town; definitely NOT cosmopolitan". Someone with a not-liberal father, so we can't fund-raise from him.<br /><br />Yes, the self-proclaimed ever-so-tolerant crowd.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com