(07-12-2017 12:37 PM)Bearcat 1985 Wrote:  So are you among those who think universities should stop teaching things like History or Philosophy or Astronomy? Just become purely utilitarian trade schools turning out trained, but not educated, worker bees for corporate America? The job of a research university is to educate students and create new knowledge. And while that doesn't need to be incompatible with some form of training, that shouldn't negate the primary mission. If somebody is uncomfortable with that mission then send your kids to a community college or trade school like DeVry.

Women's studies are not educational, they're political.
Swahili classes are not educational, anymore than pig latin classes would be educational. The obscure sections of anthropology and sociology are not educational, they're purely ideological. When you make that part of the curriculum, you might as be having people watch Joel Osteen's sermons on Sunday mornings. It's the same ****.
As far as "corporate America" goes, post modernism benefits corporations more than any other ideology. If universities, the sleazeballs that they are, stop charging $500 for an oceanography textbook that has the same information I can find in an Ebook for 99 cents, that you can only sell back for a fraction of the cost; I'll happily pretend they're not bloodsucking hellspawn. Til then, F'em. Human garbage.

As far as the end of that comment goes, DeVry doesn't hold the keys to the doors other universities do. That's like holding someone's head under water and saying "But you don't have to breathe!"
Sorry, but universities aren't charity cases and they don't deserve our pity. People are paying you tens of thousands individually and the tax payer is being forced to pay for you through grants and state money allocated to you on the assumption that you'll produce functioning useful adults. Do your ******* jobs or get lost.
Beyond corrupting education, I think these classes and this ideology have subverted natural selection. Look at what they do to people. They go from being human, to being a bunch of mutant, hairless, genderless, tadpole-people. Bizarre creatures, who have no viable knowledge and the dress sense to think that it's okay wear garb that looks like an emo version of Waldo(from "Where's Waldo?") as such












^This **** up there, yeah. That's not natural. And babyboomers given that you've raised this(my) generation, all I can say is you ****** up somewhere down the line. I don't know where exactly, if it was the relativism, the placating the egos of minorities to make yourselves feel less guilty about the bigotry of your parents or what... maybe you just told millennials they were special too many times... but this is screwy. These people are going out into the workplace. That's horrifying. Nobody that devoid of intellectual curiosity and that emotionally crippled should be in charge of anything.