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A century ago, our culture respected \u201ccollege boys,\u201d kids who not only graduated high school, but managed to get accepted into college. Yes, \u201ccollege boys\u201d tended to be wealthy, so there was certainly some elitism here, but the fact remained that going to college was considered an honorable, respectable, achievement, and a sign of future success (a sign that was fairly accurate back then).<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to come across as elitist, but nothing has denigrated the value and respect of going to college, much less a college degree, than opening up admissions to everyone. In the name of growth (and fatter paychecks for the folks running the places), most of our institutions have changed their polices to be open admission. Being a \u201ccollege boy\u201d is as much an achievement as buying a cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

In addition to allowing entrance to everyone, many of our campuses turned into playgrounds at best, and indoctrination camps at worst. I\u2019ve covered the ideologically induced riots a few times, but there\u2019s more damage being done here than just the riots:<\/p>\n

Slutty sheep: Veteran academics warn college students are going off the rails<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201cslutty sheep\u201d reference above is in regards to the sexual promiscuity on our campuses. Every campus of any size (and all campuses do all they can to be as large as possible) has a \u201cmeat market\u201d nearby where college kids go to drink and copulate with abandon.<\/p>\n

\u2026their sexual promiscuity is practically the only part of their lives that their colleges refuse to police\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

I know how bizarre my next anecdote sounds, but I feel the need to add my eyewitness testimony. A friend of mine\u2019s daughter was born, and I watched her grow up for 18 years. She grew up into a pretty young woman, smart (she scored higher than I did on those standardized tests), and barely dated in high school. Darn near the first thing she did when she went to a top tier university? Register on Tinder to find males to copulate with. I got to be there for the fallout\/bailouts as these \u201crelationships\u201d consistently ended badly.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve certainly heard many similar stories, as well as seen with my own eyes. We really, really, need to start asking questions about what happened in our culture that makes such behavior commonplace. Tinder exists for a reason, so I don\u2019t think my anecdote should be discounted.<\/p>\n

The author of<\/em> Excellent Sheep, which fleshes out his views on the failure of elite education, told the Franciscan crowd that most students nowadays think that being intellectual simply means getting good grades.<\/em><\/p>\n

I grant every generation of scholars says things much like the above, so much of it can be discounted. But there is a grain of relevant truth here:<\/p>\n

He began assigning A-minus grades to students whose papers simply checked all the necessary boxes for an A but didn\u2019t add any real insight, while working with those students to help them find their own intellectual voice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Educationist theory has warped quite a bit of higher education<\/a>, and the article only implicitly touches on one way it\u2019s been deformed. While in the past, your papers were \u201cmust be 10 pages, must have 6 references\u201d and past that it was up to the professor to grade them, today\u2019s assignments often have \u201cgrading rubrics,\u201d a page of boxes, of moronic guidelines that tell the student exactly what to include in the assignment, and when, and how, in what order, in what way. So now students follow a \u201cpaint by numbers\u201d approach to assignments, checking off boxes to get their guaranteed A (or in this case, A-). Rubrics make grading easy enough that the professor\u2019s job can be automated\u2026we really should resist this stuff, for several good reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026students go into fields including law, medicine and finance because they assume it will yield a lucrative career, not because they actually have a passion for those disciplines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Allow me to put in my obligatory rant against the student loan scam here. All the money flowing into higher education has forced the reasonable students to abandon scholarly work, and they know their only hope of paying off their student loans is to choose a field which, hopefully pays well. The authors complain, rightfully, that they don\u2019t get students interested in academics anymore, but somehow don\u2019t realize the student loan scam is another reason for this, with open admissions supplemental to the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026colleges only act in the place of a parent selectively, Guroian said: If colleges are policing alcohol and drug use, why aren\u2019t they policing where and when students are in situations where they can behave promiscuously?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The author mostly focuses on the sexual escapades which seem to be the focus of many students, but seem to miss other issues on campus. Yes, our schools do indeed police alcohol and drug use, but it\u2019s important to understand schools also guide our students into a certain ideology, to the point that some schools even employ commissars to police student activity on social media (i.e., off campus). We truly have thought police on campus today, and they even reach off campus<\/a>\u2026the author doesn\u2019t seem to know that the ideology being enforced rather supports sexual profligacy.<\/p>\n

He believes colleges are \u201cunreformable,\u201d and that any attempt at reining in the problem of sexual libertinism will only cause more problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not ready to throw in the towel here. If we just shut down the student loan scam, I strongly suspect the student base will drop considerably, and that much of the remaining students will be more focused on education than copulation. I think it\u2019s a risk worth taking.<\/p>\n

Guroian said he\u2019s \u201cdreading the idea\u201d of his grandchildren reaching college age.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no greater damning sign of higher education than having professors tell their kids \u201cdon\u2019t do what I\u2019ve done, do not get into academia,\u201d and yet that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing here. I already saw it myself when I was at a scammy community college, and saw the looks of disgust on my co-workers and boss\u2019s faces when I suggest their kids come to the community college.<\/p>\n

There are many issues plaguing higher ed today, and our leaders in the media and education scream that these issues are unimportant, not worthy of addressing. A simple test to see if they believe their own words? Find out what they\u2019re doing with their kids after the kids graduate high school.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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