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Higher Nonsense, Lower Education

07 Wednesday Dec 2022

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college, decline, education, USSA

Professor Bruce Thornton pretty much nails the collapse of higher liberal education in the US.

Those days are gone. Today our educational institutions are grubby, rent-seeking businesses, and propaganda organs for illiberal, incoherent ideologies based on the “higher nonsense” that has captured “higher education,” and from there trickled down into K-12 schools. No wonder the majority of the products of those failed institutions, like Generation Z, support letting murderers go free, censoring speech that challenges their “stock notions and habits,” joining the anti-carbon “green” cult, and subjecting children to drag-queen shows and inappropriate sexual curricula.

Leaving aside the fact the K-12s were DOA from their inception, and removing the Judeo-Christian non sequitur, renders his analysis almost perfect. I’m sure Senator Walker will lead the charge to reverse this curse. Oh, no, wait…

Good Degrees for Good Jobs

28 Monday Nov 2022

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college, economy, education, employment

Like most other advice from Boomers, that line is a load of crap. More and more employers cease requiring useless college degrees.

Companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Delta Air Lines Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. have reduced educational requirements for certain positions and shifted hiring to focus more on skills and experience. Maryland this year cut college-degree requirements for many state jobs—leading to a surge in hiring—and incoming Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro campaigned on a similar initiative.

U.S. job postings requiring at least a bachelor’s degree were 41% in November, down from 46% at the start of 2019 ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an analysis by the Burning Glass Institute, a think tank that studies the future of work. Degree requirements dropped even more early in the pandemic. They have grown since then but remain below prepandemic levels.

At the lowest depths of the fake pandemic, the required figure was down to 1/3rd of available jobs. And it’s not just the allegedly tight economy, but also the fact that companies realize, unlike the GD Boomers, that most (MOST) college degrees are worse than worthless. Plan accordingly, kids.

Seldom Read a Book

18 Tuesday Oct 2022

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Alexander Zubatov, America, college, education, failure, TS Eliot

Alexander Zubatov offers a very good essay on the decline of US colleges and universities. Find it at The American Conservative.

Why is American higher education such an abject failure? Our system of higher education simultaneously and confusingly aims at two entirely distinct goals—and, as such, is discharging neither of them especially well. It is, on the one hand, supposed to prepare us for the labor market by arming us with practical skills, and on the other hand, supposed to turn us into Renaissance men and women, who have a deeper understanding of our world. But the most popular major in college today is “business”—a nonsense major that neither educates anyone in the broad sense nor prepares them for anything in particular in the narrow sense of the workaday world. Christopher Lasch observed that most college students “get little training in writing (unless ‘Commercial English’ is an acceptable substitute), seldom read a book, and graduate without exposure to history, philosophy, or literature.”

Read the whole thing. Note that the T.S. Eliot quote came from a work from the era immediately after World War II and was not limited to “higher” education, at least as it exists today. It was bad then. It’s worse now.

Also, he’s 100% correct – “business” is a nonsense major almost completely devoid of education. And what a shame to wait until college to become acquainted with (or not) history, philosophy, and literature. It’s not an accident that those three subjects, and many others, have been erased from nearly all levels of modern/post-modern education.

COLUMN: Mortem Universitatis Magistrorum et Scolarium

05 Wednesday Oct 2022

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college, decline, economics, education, Gal Gadot, Goodles

Mortem Universitatis Magistrorum et Scolarium

 

Greetings, intrepid reader. Here, we have another slightly discombobulated essay on a few things. It’s really not too shabby, come to think about it. I reworked it a few times; the happy, good news is at the end. It’s very good. The first little bit is not, though it is and has been expected. And deserved.

Economic Ragnarok is here.

This was going to be the primary focus, today, but I just don’t have the heart this week. Therefore, just know that the portion of the now bifurcated global economy in and related to the fallen West is collapsing. The crash is here (great read). That’s why 60%(!) of ‘Muricans are working, yet broke. Even the UN is panicking and pleading with the banksters to stop the slaughter. Know that expecting the usurers and their idiot political allies to fix the mess they made is like expecting the drunk driver to resurrect the pedestrian he’s just run over and killed – except the drunk probably didn’t kill out of malice. The big money strategists are now recommending … prayer. I’ve been recommending the same for some time; I’ve also been pointing out the inescapable nature of what’s in progress now. For instance, over three years ago I noted the frantic efforts to save the banks (again). Part of the Covid warfare involved a cover-up and worsening of the pre-existing financial crisis. 

As I stated, I just don’t have the energy for that, today; the horse has tired of its beatings. Interestingly enough, my blog post before that last linked column, from September 2019, was about the “end of education.” I decided to run with that theme again, here and now. Today’s work is closely related to my post this past Saturday, Schools Cause Ignorance. If you’re keeping track, that one was education article number 391. This is, of course, number 392.

Say goodbye to the American university.

Universities are or were, among a few other things, places where competent professionals received training and education. Professionals like doctors. Imagine going to a doctor in the near future. Imagine that the doctor had failed basic biological chemistry. Imagine that, because it’s right around the dystopian corner.

Carlos Slim’s Old Gray Blog (NYT) reports that a horde of potential physicians at NYU just flunked organic chemistry. That’s the kind of chemistry that deals with living organisms and is thus a basis for modern medicine. It might be kind of important that your doctor understand, at a decent level, how an organic or inorganic compound might or might not affect your body. Important if you want to stay alive, that is.

Professor Maitland Jones is a living legend in the world of academia. He taught bio-chemistry at Princeton for years before retiring. He was a rather popular teacher. He literally wrote the textbook on the subject. One might suspect he knows what he’s teaching. NYU suspected as much and hired him out of retirement in 2007. Things initially went well. The NYT article notes that around ten years ago Jones noticed a change for the worse in his students. Simply put, they began to perform at something below the higher level expected in college. And, around the time of the fake pandemic, he observed an outright collapse in student intellect and skill. 

He took what evasive measures he could. There really isn’t a way to properly “dumb down” chemistry without destroying it, and Jones’s old-fashioned methods had served him (and his previous classes) very well. Whatever he did, it wasn’t enough – because it wasn’t his fault, a problem perhaps beyond one man’s ability to solve. The student complaints against his methodology and their own poor results essentially amounted to, “it’s tooooo hard, me no like! Unfair!” 

Despite his attempts to soften a harder science for the new generation, something gave at the end of Jones’s final term at NYU. A slew of his students failed the course. Some of them, on some assignments, earned solid “zero” grades. How that’s possible is anyone’s guess. But do remember many of these kids want to be doctors. 

NYU did the courageous thing and instituted emergency remedial training for the current students while also galvanizing admissions standards for future students. Oops, no – they just erased all the F grades and fired Jones. 

Don’t feel bad for Jones. He’s in his eighties. He retired once and now is happy retiring again. He did his part. Feel bad for society. NYU’s actions – and rest assured they are not limited to one course at the one school – are part and large parcel of the academic fraud I’ve written about nearly 400 times now. In today’s twist, this fraud may meet you in an ER examining room one dark night, probably asking you to breathe deeply while holding a stethoscope to your forehead or the table.

This year, undergraduate tuition at NYU is about $55,000 per year. Yes, that is up about 10,000%(!!!) from 1952, but of course, we know salaries have risen accordingly… If you become a doctor after graduating NYU, then your salary might really and truly keep pace with the inflation (otherwise, TFB). If you go the med school route, at NYU’s Grossman, or Harvard, or somewhere, you’ll need the money as you will likely graduate owing a million fake, nonexistent dollars to Shylock. You’ll need to repay that, whether you understand cellular absorption of oxygen or not. Fraud upon fraud upon decline.

What changed in the student body? Well, many things. For starters, the student body changed. As recently as 1993, students at NYU were 80% White Americans. When Jones started in 2007 the percentage had fallen to just below 50%. His ten year observation of declining performance oddly corresponded with a further, rapid drop or change in the demographics. The “off the cliff” as he put it, over the past two years, might have something to do with Heritage Americans descending to roughly one-fifth of the studentry. This may or may not explain things.

Whoever these kids are, they’re allegedly the kind of “smart” high schoolers who get the “good” grades so as to attend “good” schools like NYU in pursuit of the “good” jobs. Ask a Boomer about how all that works. 

One would assume the kids in Jones’s former classes had excelled at AP, honors, or joint-enrollment STEM classes in high school. One might also assume that, especially with these “smart” kids, their learning was cumulative. Then again, as I noted last Saturday, assumptions are bullshit and the schools, K-12 through college, are anti-cumulative and force negative learning.

These young people, regardless of exactly who or what else they might be, are members of the iPhone generation, with the shortened attention spans and so forth. It’s not just gizmos at work; some many things, processes, and phenomena have rendered vast numbers of several US (and Western) generations literally unable to think. It’s not that they’re not educated. It’s not that no one taught them to think logically. They, many of them, cannot think. Period. This is real, and it is one of the many hard realities of the post-modern age; people today are generally mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically less capable and more damaged than previous generations. This is, to put it mildly, not good.

America’s decades-long experiment in dysgenics is yielding its sad, rotten fruit. I think this is a part of what Brandon was bragging about the other day, about diffusing the hell out of the population. For the benefits. Benefits like a budding MD who can barely read or add or think in a language.

This is, among other things, more evidence of the ten-point drop in average IQ over the past seventy years. Chant: USA! USA! USA! Just don’t ask a Zoomer education victim to explain what those letters stand for.

Yesterday might have been the time to locate and retain a young, competent doctor. In almost all areas, we have now entered the “it’s over” phase. Hopefully, it won’t last that long; but while it does endure, it will be rough.

Now, finally, some very good news! Way back in May, if one can remember that far, I announced that I had finally purchased a box of Goodles. Over the weekend, I got around to eating them. They were the perfect accompaniment for grilled venison backstrap.

It’s all true, listen to GG:

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I’m not a food critic. And I come from the South, where charmingly obese women can home cook Mac n’ Cheese like nobody’s business. If you know, then you know – cardiac event, greasy, cheesy good. My bowl of Mover & Shaker was not that. However, I can safely declare and attest that it is by far the best boxed Mac I have ever had. 100% A+ Outstanding! The cheese factor was around 10 (by ordinary standards – a little lower in the be-larded old CSA), and the taste was uniquely wonderful, mildly spicy and rich. Then there’s the heightened nutritional values – and it does not come off, in the least, like “health” food.

Congratulations and thanks to Gal Gadot and the Goodles team. Buy some today. I highly recommend it, especially at the low and reasonable price. For reasons – see the above links – low and reasonable prices are now a most important consideration.

Schools Cause Ignorance

01 Saturday Oct 2022

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At the “higher” ed level. Read this:

Another Inconvenient Truth

In 2006, the University of Connecticut set out to discover how much learning happens in a student between entering as freshmen and graduating as a senior. Five academic areas were selected to measure, using 14,000 students at 50 American colleges, including Yale, Brown, and Georgetown. At 16 of those 50 – including Yale, Brown, and Georgetown – graduating seniors knew less than incoming freshmen. Negative growth had occurred. In the other 34, no measurable change had taken place.

A bald summary might look like this: after spending an average of six years in search of a BA degree or its equivalent, and spending an average of a quarter million in cash and loans, a great many young people had nothing or even less than nothing to show for the investment. What they had was a piece of magical paper. This is a script out of the Marx Brothers.

-John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction, pp. 37 – 38 (2010).

Sadly, this is not isolated in the colleges. I noticed a similar pattern while researching K-12s. Pick a school system and then look at the assessed test scores or other metrics from elementary through high school. One will notice that the longer a child is in the grips of these failed, deadly institutions, the less the child knows about a given subject. I randomly picked a feeder system, elementary, middle, and high school-levels, in the former state of Georgia to make this point. I used math. Let’s have a look at the effectiveness of the “lessons”.

5th grade: 14% math proficiency (stellar, huh?);

8th grade: 11.9%;

HS Algebra: 7%…

I understand that theoretically the level of difficulty increases as the grades advance, but learning is supposedly cumulative, right? And it’s not just in this one dead system. Just pick a system and test it. And it’s, ala the UCONN study, in the colleges as well. Why? Because – hang onto something – the schools were designed to destroy or cripple thinking rather than impart knowledge. To that wicked end, they are smashingly effective.

When America was an industrial nation, this system built docile, semi-literate workers for factories. In this day and age, as there is little to nothing for the kids to do once they graduate, it makes perverse sense to retard them as far as possible. That, and the primary focus of the schools has since shifted from faux-indoctrination to Moloch fodder-making.

However one slices it, no child should be subjected to this rank evil. And no semblance of even partially-advanced civilization will survive such a system. The results are already upon us. The organized schools were conceived with ill intent. Now, they are purely destructive and dangerous. It’s time to end them.

Pick One

17 Thursday Mar 2022

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#metoo, college, decline, DIEversity, education, excellence, lies

Read this story, a little long and very detailed, about the fall of a university, MeToo BS gone totally wrong, and the suffering of a German free spirit.

There’s an overarching issue that screams out from every paragraph but which nobody dares mention. In an education establishment, as with everything else, one can expect and demand excellence. Or, one can demand DIEversity. It’s one or the other.

High Cost, Low Return

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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Back in 1980, the lies about the financial benefits of college education were becoming obvious as just that – lies. Now, 1980 seems like a high-paying dream. The numbers speak for themselves.

According to the researchers’ analysis of U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics data for the years 1980 to 2019, college costs have increased by 169% over the past four decades — while earnings for workers between the ages of 22 and 27 have increased by just 19%.

Just the included chart is enough to convince all but the dumbest boomer. There is a difference, however. In 1980, for the most part, the colleges delivered educations. Now, even that is lost.

College Inequality

14 Tuesday Sep 2021

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Along with the other lies, women were brought into the universities and colleges under the false pretenses of equality. Soon, the schools may turn into female-only institutions.

‘In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man’

The number of men enrolled at colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The article, headlined “A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost,’” reports that there is a “widening education gap across the U.S.” at two- and four-year colleges and universities:

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.

If this had happened in 1950, then it would have been a crisis. Now, it’s a bit of a blessing. With substantial (yet fading) exceptions, the colleges teach virtually nothing other than CRT, White-bashing, male hatred, and anti-Christianity. With a few select exceptions, no American man should waste time in these dying, useless hen houses, especially given all of the saner alternatives.

When reality still mattered, less than 10% of men attended college because of exclusionary principles based on excellence and ability. That system maintained and grew society. Today, these schools are more paint thinner than paint. Talented and eligible American men, by and large, should either look to opportunities in Europe or else utilize the grand alternatives of independent study, apprenticeship, or trade schooling.

Ladies: You’ve come a long way, babies! See age?

Education Resources UPDATE

29 Thursday Jul 2021

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I updated the Ed Page today by adding a link to Ron Unz’s US college enrollment demographic tracker. Now firmly in the age of identity, and with a dwindling supply of real college education options, it’s nice to be able to find a school that looks like you. For those not pursuing higher education, the link still provides another eye-opener in re the demographic collapse of the former America.

Gay College “NIL”

08 Thursday Jul 2021

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Given that football is officially gay now, I foresee a lot of “name, image, and likeness” with or on corporate rainbow logos. Given that the schools give these college playas neither pay nor education, maybe it will all work out okay.

BTW, if you’re looking for a new, heterosexual fall sport, one you can personally participate in, allow me to recommend boxing, weight-lifting, and shooting.

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