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In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Chronicle of Higher Education:
A majority of Republicans and right-leaning independents think higher education has a negative effect on the country, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center on Monday. The same study has found a consistent increase in distrust of colleges and universities since 2010, when negative perceptions among Republicans was measured at 32 percent. That number now stands at 58 percent. By comparison, 72 percent of Democrats or left-leaning Independents in the study said colleges and universities have a positive impact on the United States... In the Pew Research Center's study, distrust of colleges was strongest in the highest income bracket and the oldest age group, with approval levels of just 31 percent among respondents whose family income exceeds $75,000 a year and 27 percent among those older than 65.
The left has infected every aspect of the education system and has caused serious harm. They have indoctrinated several generations of our youth to the detriment of our country. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
Indeed. Maybe those with this opinion have seen the leftist nutjob ideologues taking over campuses and demanding administrative control, assaulting journalists ("I need some muscle over here"), setting fires and beating people for the crime of trying to attend a speaking event, and even trying to implement segregration, often while the faculty and administration either approve or cheer them on.
And with the internet, the leftist media can't cover it up anymore.
Republicans: Challenge accepted.
"The only good windmill is a tilted windmill."
yup, exactly, colleges are meant for education, not brainwashing the young with progressive liberal commie propaganda
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Colleges are also how we end up with electrical engineers and doctors.
If education were less hostile, then those opportunities wouldn't be almost exclusively for foreign students only.
Well, right now it is 100% left wing progressive fascist indoctrination camps, and variation on that theme, the only difference is degrees. Every patriotic American should be against these bastardized versions of what college was supposed to be, especially on the taxpayer dime. If you can't recognize the fact that colleges (and more specifically college professors) are out of control rabid, fascist leftists, you are part of the problem.
How about eliminating the antiquated concept of tenure entirely and require professors to perform just like every other profession. Their job is to teach the course in a professional and accurate manner, there should be a requirement to focus on the content and keep your shitty political views to yourself unless you are teaching a poli sci class, and even then you must bring in both view points faithfully, since it is a roughly even split in the country, it should be taught with balance, and grading against conservatives solely against their point of view should be grounds for discipline or dismissal.
The bottom line is that not all colleges are the same degree of out of control, but conservatives are done paying for the liberal indoctrination camps. The fascist progressives (who btw, are by far the largest fascist group in the US in modern history) have overreached and they are in the process of violently collapsing.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
National Socialism.
They were fascists, who put commies AND socialists in camps and murdered then, all your re-labeling and fake history nonetheless.
Im sortof tired of the old switcheroo meme of trying to make "left is teh hitler oh noes!".