More Ain't Necessarily Better
No matter what Pharaoh Dumbass the First and his Woke Viziers claim, adding more years to an already poor education does not a smarter person make.
The press from the left is that America should guarantee more college to more people.
Biden wants to guarantee two years of junior college for free.
All while the same people who are screaming “Free college is a right!” are destroying the public schools they currently control. High School’s are dropping advanced curriculums because being smart at an early age is somehow racist. They are dropping testing and grading standards because those are also, you guessed it, racist. Rather than engaging in their missions to educate and produce the best graduates possible, colleges and universities are dropping entrance requirements, again, because they are racist. Even medical schools are refusing students of high academic standing in favor of admitting based on skin color.
What is the point of consciously dumbing down the feed stock for our universities and then trying to get more of those unprepared kids into even more school? An associate degree from a junior college once had market value, today it is the equivalent of a high school diploma from the 70’s. There are so many unprepared kids going on to college that there is a significant amount of college time being spent in remedial education – catching them up by teaching them what they should already know.
It is a losing proposition.
One can’t build the third floor of a house without building the foundation first.
It is the same with higher education. So much of future learning is based on past learning and if kids didn’t get the basics BEFORE they make it to college, they are unlikely to succeed.
A few years ago, I ran across data that indicated government education is creating a nation of drones:
“Things are looking grim for young Americans starting work.
According to a new report on the state of US education from the Council on Foreign Relations, Americans going into the labor force today are less educated than those retiring from it. This phenomenon is unique among developed countries. For 55- to 64-year-olds, the US has the highest percentage of high-school graduates and the third-highest percentage of college graduates; in people aged 25 to 34, the country is 10th and 13th respectively.”
Research seems to indicate we are getting dumber by choice, not by physiology:
“Which brings us to an unpleasant possibility. ‘You may not want to hear this,’ says cognitive scientist David Geary of the University of Missouri, ‘but I think the best explanation for the decline in our brain size is the idiocracy theory.’ Geary is referring to the eponymous 2006 film by Mike Judge about an ordinary guy who becomes involved in a hibernation experiment at the dawn of the 21st century. When he wakes up 500 years later, he is easily the smartest person on the dumbed-down planet. ‘I think something a little bit like that happened to us,’ Geary says. In other words, idiocracy is where we are now.”
If young people are not educated and do not know how to think - how to logically take something to a conclusion - they make decisions based on the only tool they have: emotion. What we offer our children today is not education, it is feel-good, multi-cultural indoctrination – a mishmash of comforting Pablum and ideological, politically correct claptrap.
Once it was just the “woke” universities where the four-year term that marks the span of post-high school higher learning was consumed completely by fascists bent on training the next generation in the leftist way it should go – but as parents all over America are learning, this collectivist, racist and gender confusing agenda now goes all the way down to kindergarten.
Why not focus on the quality of education in elementary, middle, and high schools?
Well, that was sort of a rhetorical question. We know the answer.
There is so much social engineering and indoctrination ongoing in the public schools, we really need to ask if there is any real learning going on at America’s public schools and on college campuses these days?
Why would anyone think expanding access to college while at the same time, undercutting the curriculums that prepare students for success in college?
What is the point of spending another four years only to produce a student with knowledge at the same level as a high school diploma of thirty years ago?
It is a waste of time and money.
Employers will know and adjust accordingly. The world of work grades by performance, not on a curve. They use the Yoda system – employees either do or they do not and a worthless degree from what will become diploma mills won’t change that.
As someone who has hired people for over 30 years, my experience is not so much that young people entering the workforce have become dumber, but they are significantly less prepared.
Many of our Founding Fathers would be considered impossibly young today – and yet they gave birth to a nation. My maternal grandparents were 18 and 17 respectively when they were married and were already farming. They reared six children in the heart of the Great Depression.
It seems that there is a correlation here – the more widely educated a population is, the more they choose self-governance, liberty, and a free-market economy.
Less educated populations fall victim to a smaller group of malignant and calculating people who can appeal to the collective emotions of a population. Socialism, Marxism, and communism make the promise that they can and will somehow make up for the deficiencies of one individual by taking from others.
One comes to realize this is state sponsored infantilization of the adult population, a form of state facilitated arrested development to retard the advancement of the individual. The collectivist state has a vested interest in extending childhood dependency as long as possible.
Perhaps we should consider that is the true goal.
I don’t do a lot of direct hiring as I’m a real estate developer. Mostly I hire sub trades who hire their own people. But I do pay a few people directly. If you’re highly educated there’s a very real chance I WON’T hire you. My experience with well educated people is they are very weak. They crumble under pressure. They’re the parachute kids for the most part. They’re 25 and have never made a personal decision for which they’ve had to pay a price. Put them into a dynamic work situation and they’re asking for time off within two weeks. They’re not just unprepared in the sense they’ve learned a lot nof things they will have to unlearn. They’re unprepared emotionally. I’ve also interviewed women who are unrealistically entitled. “What is your expected salary?”, said to a woman with almost no experience. “I’m Certainly not working for less than $100,000 a year. Plus bonuses.”
It seems like I know so many people in their 20’s with a college education who are still living at home and dependent on their parents for everything. Also having been a high school teacher from the 70’s to 2015 I definitely saw the dumbing down of America. Kids who were average regular kids in the 70’s would be rockstars in the classroom of today. Yes the movie Idiocracy is not that far-fetched!