I have had nearly enough bullshit. The manure has piled up so deep in the hallways, classrooms, and administration buildings of American higher education that I am not sure how much longer I can wade through it and retain my sanity and integrity.
Even worse, the accumulated effects of all the academic BS are contributing to this country’s disastrous political condition and, ultimately, putting at risk the very viability and character of decent civilization. What do I mean by BS?
BS is the university’s loss of capacity to grapple with life’s Big Questions, because of our crisis of faith in truth, reality, reason, evidence, argument, civility, and our common humanity.
BS is the farce of what are actually "fragmentversities" claiming to be universities, of hyperspecialization and academic disciplines unable to talk with each other about obvious shared concerns.
Good find. After reading this "BS is hypercommercialized college athletics and administrations sucking the teats of big money, often in the process exploiting and discarding rather than educating student athletes, and recurrently corrupting recruitment programs, tutoring services, and grading systems.", the first thing in my mind was fighting Irish.
ReplyDeleteOnce they started defending 'liberal-arts' as a valid subject, it lost a lot of punch, though seem to be more of a desperate call for help in saving the 'humanities'.
Starting out female has become a benefit under our current socialist matriarch, hope your daughters fair well.
May have mentioned this before. Much of academia took a strong hit in 1991, when enforcement of title IV included a reduction in academic standards so women can get better grades. When compulsory school teachers say 'I got a 3.8GPA', just remember that's the average GPA of a teaching graduate.
Was disappointed in my 2.0, until I realized it meant they did not successfully indoctrinate my sense of FREEDOM.
Thanks and they don't even have the FSEE for civil servants anymore which shows how far we have fallen, intentionally.
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