Humans learn. It is kind of our thing in the animal kingdom. So much so our mind and ability to think and learn is our primary survival mechanism. Our societies respect knowledge so much, having a college education can earn you thousands if not millions of dollars more over a lifetime compared to those who don't pursue college. While having a college education is still a great benefit, a new phenomenon is likely to destroy that advantage.
What is happening at colleges across the country, and particularly at highly rated colleges like Columbia, Berkeley, Harvard, UCLA and the like, is professors spend more time indoctrinating students on the finer points of socialism than the subjects they are pretending to teach. I've made my point in my YouTube comments on a Ted Talk video by Kenneth Lacovara.
On Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe | Kenneth Lacovara I made the following remarks:
Did great until around 10:30 mark when it started to become PC garbage. Guy knows dinosaurs, he gets back on track, then around 15:05 goes way out of his league and expert knowledge again. I wouldn't otherwise comment, but this is the result of the epidemic of politicizing education. This guy, bless him for his paleontology knowledge, but I don't appreciate the straying from his expertise where it is blatantly obvious that it is not his field. On these points he is much like actors who think their political opinions should sway votes. Thanks for teaching me where to look for dinosaurs, this I really didn't already know, and congratulations on your monumental discovery and reminder that herbivores aren't to be trifled with just because they aren't going to eat me. I'll take your unsolicited opinions under advisement.
Don't misunderstand, professor Lacovara is well respected in his field. But in my opinion he appears to hate humanity. Here is part of the Wikipedia article on him:
Kenneth Lacovara is a professor of paleontology and geology at Rowan University, he is founding Dean of Rowan University's School of Earth & Environment and the founding Director of the Rowan Fossil Park. Formerly, Lacovara was a Professor of Biology at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Discover Magazine has three times listed his work in the "Top 100 Science Stories" of the year, for 2001,2012, and 2014. He was a speaker at the 2016 TED and INK conferences.
Lacovara is known for his work in applying high-tech tools to dinosaur paleontology, including 3D scanning and 3D printing, and robotics.
He is a resident of Swedesboro, New Jersey and a professional jazz drummer.
Some poor student in professor Lacovara's class is going to walk away from his college courses with some serious mind pollution along with a bit of knowledge on dinosaurs or geology.
Professor Lacovara currently teaches at Rowan University where the least expensive costs per student hour is around $7,000.00. I researched this in June 2019 - and my intention is not to skewer professor Lacovara, who seems a nice fellow. I seriously doubt anything he teaches is worth $7,000 per student hour, but that is another subject on why the cost of college inflation is comparatively astronomical to other industries (Hint: Socialized college loans).
When your child leaves Rowan University having taken a class where the professor is of like teaching practice the child is going to have some portion of 45-48 hours of crap in their head as "expert" knowledge. That garbage, mixed in with anything valuable they learned may influence political and social beliefs throughout their lives. If they are influenced by professor Lacovara, they are not going to have a lot of love for humanity, of which we all belong.
This is repeated in every genre, be it physics, history, literature, or astrobiology. That is a lot of garbage and it actually designed to influence students, which I believe is extraordinarily evil.
Before you send your children to some fancy college I suggest you weigh a lot of factors into that decision. It may be nice to have a degree from Harvard, but a degree from a college like Hillsdale College is guaranteed to be knowledge along with appropriate cultural values and much less mind garbage.
Your mileage may vary.
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