Fraternities and sororities are ridiculous and terrible institutions, and have no place in education. Alcohol and’ drinking culture’ could / should (but won’t) be rethought. Same thing with pot, legalized gambling (and illegal gambling too). Mixed into the ridiculous charade that is education / ‘higher education’ - it doesn’t matter what…
Fraternities and sororities are ridiculous and terrible institutions, and have no place in education. Alcohol and’ drinking culture’ could / should (but won’t) be rethought. Same thing with pot, legalized gambling (and illegal gambling too).
Mixed into the ridiculous charade that is education / ‘higher education’ - it doesn’t matter what the proportions are, no matter what, current education is a farce. And yeah, no fooling -
“It’s unethical to base your kid’s life on getting into places like this because at the end of the day, they don’t really care about your kid,” he said. “They never did.”
That’s right, ‘they never did’
My kid is using his time at [the flagship of one of the top 3 state university systems] to use judo within the administrative department of motor vehicles which is his university - to study with the few great teachers not yet canceled there, or replaced with grunt level labor, ie adjuncts who are rightly angry about having to be strippers at the same time as teachers to pay their loans down. But he’s ready, and we, his parents are too, the MOMENT he gets any kind of sanction, to tell them to f*ck off, and for him to just leave. He already is a strong worker who can pull down a grown *ss salary, as his former boss puts it, and he’s at the university to try to get some more background in the disgraced fields within humanities: classics, econ, literature, etc; to so, he has to wade through classes that say they are one thing, eg Russian literature but end up being gender studies/trauma only (and i have the course descriptions to back it up). And when he does exit, prob w/out a degree, he’s ready to freelance, to start his own thing, to NEVER be the wage slave that the indentured education industry puts them on the meat conveyor belt for.
Higher ed is busted, and has been for a long time.
It was never there to do anything but give that credential.
That credential is no longer useful, ie as a certificate to ‘get money’, ie ‘if u cn do this, u cn get a gd job’ like the NYC subway ad used to say.
But i’m glad higher ed and all this fakery around drinking & etc still exists, because it lowers lowers lowers the bar for my kids and others like them.
Stanford/Harvard got us some great stuff, but it also got us worshipping psychopaths like Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg, whose revolutionary tech companies, solved what problems again? Stack those against Edison, Ford, HP, etc. (and yeah Edison and Ford, they too not the greatest of humans, but that’s why i ain’t a columnist)
Fraternities and sororities are ridiculous and terrible institutions, and have no place in education. Alcohol and’ drinking culture’ could / should (but won’t) be rethought. Same thing with pot, legalized gambling (and illegal gambling too).
Mixed into the ridiculous charade that is education / ‘higher education’ - it doesn’t matter what the proportions are, no matter what, current education is a farce. And yeah, no fooling -
“It’s unethical to base your kid’s life on getting into places like this because at the end of the day, they don’t really care about your kid,” he said. “They never did.”
That’s right, ‘they never did’
My kid is using his time at [the flagship of one of the top 3 state university systems] to use judo within the administrative department of motor vehicles which is his university - to study with the few great teachers not yet canceled there, or replaced with grunt level labor, ie adjuncts who are rightly angry about having to be strippers at the same time as teachers to pay their loans down. But he’s ready, and we, his parents are too, the MOMENT he gets any kind of sanction, to tell them to f*ck off, and for him to just leave. He already is a strong worker who can pull down a grown *ss salary, as his former boss puts it, and he’s at the university to try to get some more background in the disgraced fields within humanities: classics, econ, literature, etc; to so, he has to wade through classes that say they are one thing, eg Russian literature but end up being gender studies/trauma only (and i have the course descriptions to back it up). And when he does exit, prob w/out a degree, he’s ready to freelance, to start his own thing, to NEVER be the wage slave that the indentured education industry puts them on the meat conveyor belt for.
Higher ed is busted, and has been for a long time.
It was never there to do anything but give that credential.
That credential is no longer useful, ie as a certificate to ‘get money’, ie ‘if u cn do this, u cn get a gd job’ like the NYC subway ad used to say.
But i’m glad higher ed and all this fakery around drinking & etc still exists, because it lowers lowers lowers the bar for my kids and others like them.
Stanford/Harvard got us some great stuff, but it also got us worshipping psychopaths like Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg, whose revolutionary tech companies, solved what problems again? Stack those against Edison, Ford, HP, etc. (and yeah Edison and Ford, they too not the greatest of humans, but that’s why i ain’t a columnist)