IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN - START REFORMING OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
PART 2 in the series - "Three Things That Will Turn America Around"
2 Timothy 3:1,6-7 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be… led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
One of the biggest shams of the 20th century was the idea that everyone needs a college degree. Education is not about attaining degrees. There are plenty of academics out there with more degrees than a thermometer, but they’re idiots — quintessential “nutty professors.” They have a pound of classroom study and an ounce of common sense. As our society literally bought into the idea that everyone needs a college degree, an academic industry was created. An industry that is about passing standardized tests, moving kids on to the next grade (even if they didn’t pass the tests), and obtaining a college degree (even if the graduates can’t determine their gender). How much sense does that make? The foolishness of this approach to education is clearly on display today. True education is about teaching responsibility and learning how to make a positive difference in the world.
Having spent my fair share of time in the halls of academia, I observed that many academics think the way they do — not because it’s the smart way to think — but because they think that’s how smart people are supposed to think. Truth be known, individual thought is a rarity on liberal college campuses. Compliance, rather than individualism, dominates liberal campuses. However, it’s not forced compliance. It’s worse. It’s voluntary compliance driven by the desire to be accepted. Even if the group thought is completely asinine, like transgenderism or the recent anti-Israel mobs, people go along with it because they're so desperate to be accepted by the group. Modern “liberal” campuses are actually illiberal, which is a huge problem for our future. We saw how powerful academic compliance was during the Covid-19 pandemic, but in no way is that the only problem on college campuses.
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