It is amazing to me how so many college students really lack critical thinking skills and just “go along to get along.” And then they graduate, become doctoral students where their wokeness is amplified by their subservience to thesis and dissertation directors and committees. Once they become Ph.Divinities (today Ph.D really just means “piked higher and deeper”) and then they intellectual tyrannize more young people with this toxic ideology.
Yeah, correct. Today's hoods higher education is about reverence to 'scientific authority' of the 'experts in the field' and subservience to their own teachers and directors. It's not about thinking, learning pr researching anything but about boosting their and their teachers' egos. Absolutely disgusting.
My oldest earned his BA, Masters, and PhD in Mathematics all at the same university in consecutive years without working outside the university (he was a TA).
I see this as a huge mistake. He didn’t have a base of comparison for 10 years... his frame of reference was entirely on campus. He is a wizard when comes to statistical computation and analysis but when comes to critical reading or thinking... he is lost. Zero common sense and not willing to hear, much less digest alternative viewpoints.
I fully agree with your assessment of higher education!
To Alex: When I returned to university to earn my Ph.D it was in time to see the glorious collapse of international communism. I was one of conservatives among our Ph.D students most of whom were far leftists. There was one young woman whom I always think of as “Miss Barbie Doll” who was an ardent Marxist. When I scoffed that had Marxism been true then the Comminist regimes should have been the economic superpowers of the world. To which she replied “Why should the value of socialism be measured in economic terns?” ! 😆
Also I returned after a decade of working the “real world,” namely journalism in Iran of all places and retail work in the USA. Most of my “colleagues” had almost zero work experience off campus.
It is amazing to me how so many college students really lack critical thinking skills and just “go along to get along.” And then they graduate, become doctoral students where their wokeness is amplified by their subservience to thesis and dissertation directors and committees. Once they become Ph.Divinities (today Ph.D really just means “piked higher and deeper”) and then they intellectual tyrannize more young people with this toxic ideology.
Ph. Divinities is a great word, high five!
Yeah, correct. Today's hoods higher education is about reverence to 'scientific authority' of the 'experts in the field' and subservience to their own teachers and directors. It's not about thinking, learning pr researching anything but about boosting their and their teachers' egos. Absolutely disgusting.
Meant “piled higher and deeper”
My oldest earned his BA, Masters, and PhD in Mathematics all at the same university in consecutive years without working outside the university (he was a TA).
I see this as a huge mistake. He didn’t have a base of comparison for 10 years... his frame of reference was entirely on campus. He is a wizard when comes to statistical computation and analysis but when comes to critical reading or thinking... he is lost. Zero common sense and not willing to hear, much less digest alternative viewpoints.
I fully agree with your assessment of higher education!
Thank you for your comment, your opinion is valuable for me! Feel sorry for your son though. Hope he will wake up at some point.
This is what I see as one of the greatest dysfunctions of academia. All a form of intellectual inbreeding.
To Alex: When I returned to university to earn my Ph.D it was in time to see the glorious collapse of international communism. I was one of conservatives among our Ph.D students most of whom were far leftists. There was one young woman whom I always think of as “Miss Barbie Doll” who was an ardent Marxist. When I scoffed that had Marxism been true then the Comminist regimes should have been the economic superpowers of the world. To which she replied “Why should the value of socialism be measured in economic terns?” ! 😆
Why indeed. No wonder Communism failed everywhere it was tried if they don't even pretend to understand economics...
Also I returned after a decade of working the “real world,” namely journalism in Iran of all places and retail work in the USA. Most of my “colleagues” had almost zero work experience off campus.
Explains a lot about our professional decline.
Racist is one who likes or prefers his own race. The slogan black is beautiful is racists? Whites are better?
To lie to people that historically white characters were Black is racist.
Yeah, they were all hijacked by Woke Marxists. It's 100% political now and not about gay rights.
I wish more people understood this and ceased blaming gays for this shit.