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I don\u2019t go to American Thinker often, but a recent post there from an \u201cold white professor\u201d has some good advice\u2026though I have a bit to add.<\/p>\n
Advice to the College-Bound from the Old, White Professor<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n While the advice is good, the professor here doesn\u2019t realize that most battles are decided before the first drop of blood is drawn\u2026what I mean in this case is that picking the right school is most important, and the advice flows from that.<\/p>\n Since he doesn\u2019t give that advice, allow me to do so: don\u2019t go to an expensive school unless your family is so rich they can pay for it. Yes, graduates from expensive schools tend to get higher paying jobs and that\u2019s why kids are told getting a loan is a good idea, but bottom line, those higher paying jobs invariably go to the well connected (i.e., the people rich enough to send their kids to such schools without going into debt).<\/p>\n So, there\u2019s my advice that trumps everything else: go to a school you can afford. That\u2019ll keep you out of more trouble than anything the old white professor has to say. If you\u2019re not academically inclined (which is why you should take the SAT\/ACT even if the college doesn\u2019t require it, so you can know this), seriously consider learning a trade. Even if don\u2019t go into debt, spending a few years learning about things you don\u2019t care about isn\u2019t going to help you anyway.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get to his advice:<\/p>\n Nearly all college experiences begin with a series of orientation sessions. Most start with the assumption that you are the cursed offspring of a flawed society. You come to college not to be educated but to be reeducated.<\/em><\/p>\n The above isn\u2019t really advice, but reinforces my idea: if you\u2019re going to a school like this, you\u2019ve probably already lost the battle. In \u201cthe olden days\u201d orientation was just an afternoon learning where everything on campus was, but for many campuses, ideology is everything and orientation has blossomed (wilted?) into preliminary re-education.<\/p>\n The brainwashing will begin in orientation but will not end there. If you live in a dormitory, there will be required sensitivity sessions run by minions from the office of residence life.<\/em><\/p>\n Once again: if you\u2019re living in a dorm where you\u2019re subjected to indoctrination every day\u2026you\u2019ve already lost. I really don\u2019t recommend dorm life if any other option is available. Not only are you trapped into indoctrination, you\u2019re also trapped into the paying exorbitant college expenses.<\/p>\n Additionally, in my time on campus, I saw more students than I can count also get trapped into the drinking\/partying culture on campus, because they can\u2019t leave the dorms where the culture incubates. So, live off campus if you can, and parents be advised that administration has long abandoned their responsibility to the students, and so parents cannot expect their kids to be safe from corrupting influences in a dorm on campus\u2014in fact, they\u2019ll likely be exposed to more than if they lived on the streets around campus.<\/p>\n Many of you will be compelled\u2026to complete a multicultural requirement. These courses are compulsory because no rational person would sit through them.<\/em><\/p>\n Yet again, if you\u2019re on a campus where you\u2019re forced to do this\u2026you\u2019ve likely already failed to select an appropriate school. Yes, universities have always had mandatory courses, but those courses provided a foundation for further education. Even if that were not the case, some rational people will sit through a course in calculus, or Western history, or physics, or quite a few other courses willingly\u2026but only a lunatic or deep ignoramus would willingly take \u201cGender Studies\u201d at this stage, because the insanity of what goes on there is too well known.<\/p>\n \u2026invoke a stereotype about black people based on their high crime and recidivism rate, and you will be admonished that to brush all black people with a single brush — especially without context — is racist. To characterize all white people as racists, however, is not a stereotype but an intellectual incision.<\/em><\/p>\n The issue in the above isn\u2019t merely that you\u2019ll hear the above from \u201cthat one guy\u201d in the department, but that there are whole departments now where \u201cthat one guy\u201d is instead the one who realizes hypocrisy is a thing and was therefore fired, and so students will instead hear the above in course after course after course with no alternative point of view presented or allowed.<\/p>\n In these classes, you will never say that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the product of Africans who shifted the trans-Saharan slave trade westward. You will never point out that two African potentates, King Tegesibu of Dahomey and King Alvare of the Congo<\/a>, were among the wealthiest men in the known world, having gotten rich by selling slaves.<\/em><\/p>\n And the above kills the whole \u201cwhites are responsible for slavery\u201d in a single paragraph and a link\u2026but the old white professor here is railing a bit too much against this madness on campus. Where\u2019s the advice?<\/p>\n It is not that the administration doesn\u2019t know what goes on in these classes, but to intercede would result in charges of racism and violation of so-called academic freedom. If you complain, your grade will crash to the floor.<\/em><\/p>\n Well, finally, some advice: don\u2019t complain about the indoctrination, because your grade is a function of how well you can show you\u2019re indoctrinated. Good advice, but once again you really want to avoid going to such classes in the first place.<\/p>\n If you regurgitate this view of the world, apologize for being white, and check your white male privilege, you will do fine.<\/em><\/p>\n Good advice, again, but I\u2019ll better it, yet again: you can easily get the degree program requirements from your school. Before setting foot on campus, see if the mandatory courses are \u201cmath, English, science, history\u201d or \u201cgender studies, African studies, child sexuality, Whites are the problem.\u201d If the mandatory courses are like the latter, avoid the campus. I know, it\u2019s usually not that easy, but you could also check out the faculty teaching those lower level courses; if they all have Education degrees, then once again that\u2019s a hint you need to walk away.<\/p>\n I guess this advice would have better been given six months ago when kids usually start applying to colleges, so I respect that if you\u2019ve already lost, already find yourself on a converged campus, the old white professor has the right of it.<\/p>\n You can get the same politically correct, meaningless education at your local community college for less than a third the money and without the student loan debt. Unless, you have secured entrance to an elite school, the first two years of undergraduate requirements are indistinguishable from the courses in a good suburban high school.<\/em><\/p>\n The professor gives the above advice in the context of getting a job unloading boxes of soap, and I do agree with him that a community college education is sufficient for that, usually.<\/p>\n The old white professor finishes with advice I can\u2019t top, and so I yield to him the last word:<\/p>\n If you are an average student, uninterested in participating in a learning environment that will harass you because of your race and was built on the model of the 19th-century German university, consider trade schools. A certified mechanic is far more in demand than a liberal arts graduate.<\/em><\/p>\n www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"