Before Sending Your Child to a College, Ask these Questions

Quote:Before Sending Your Child to a College, Ask these Questions
by Dennis Prager

Posted: 03/04/2008
  
Before you take out a second mortgage or otherwise deplete your savings in order to pay for your child's college education, you might want to ask the colleges to which your child is applying some questions.

1. Can one obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree at your college without having read a single Shakespeare play, one Federalist Paper or one book of the Bible?

If so, why attend such a college?

2. Does the college allow military recruiters on its campus?

Before being threatened by Congress with a cutoff of federal funds, many colleges denied military recruiters access to their campus. They did so either because of their hostility to military in general or specific hostility to the war in Iraq, or because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays. If you believe, as reason and history argue, that the American military has done more to preserve liberty on earth than all the professors in all the universities combined, you might not want to send your child to a university that is hostile to the military.

3. In the political science, English, sociology, anthropology and history departments -- or any other liberal arts department -- what is the ratio of Democrats to Republicans among the professors?

Over 10 years ago, the Rocky Mountain News reported that registered Democrats on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder outnumbered registered Republicans 31-1. If such a ratio exists in the social science departments of your child's prospective college, why would you want your child to attend such an institution?

4. What are the names of the speakers invited and paid with college funds to speak last year at the college?

Just ask to see the previous year's speakers list. Colleges set aside funds for visiting speakers. One would assume that a good college seeks to encourage thinking and to that end invites speakers throughout the political spectrum. If your prospective college has a speakers list that is balanced 10 to one in favor of speakers from the political left, that will help you decide whether indoctrination rather than exposure to great ideas is the university's real agenda.

5. Can my child live in a same-sex dorm and are the bathrooms co-ed?

One generation ago and for all of American history, the university acted in loco parentis, in the place of the parent. You could send your daughter to college more or less assured that the college would act on behalf of her welfare as you would -- meaning, for example, that boys had to leave girls dorms by a certain hour. Now, most colleges have no boys or girls dorms and do everything they can to enable boys and girls to fraternize in each other's rooms at any hour of the night and even share bathrooms.

6. Is Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" the most widely assigned American history book?

If the answer is yes, you should consider sending your son or daughter to another university or at least be aware that you will be paying a lot of hard-earned money for your child to be manipulated into believing that America is a bad country, certainly no better than others, as he or she reads what is essentially a proctologist's view of American history. Zinn believes, as he told me in an interview on my radio show, that America has done "probably more harm than good in its history."

7. Would a typical graduate of your university be able to say anything intelligent about Josef Stalin, Louis Armstrong, Pope John XXIII or Pope John Paul II, differences between Protestantism and Catholicism, Cain and Abel, the Gulag Archipelago, Franz Josef Haydn, Pol Pot, Martin Luther, Darfur, how interest rates affect the dollar, dark matter, and "Crime and Punishment"; explain what the Korean War was about and when it was fought; identify India on a map; and know the difference between the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council?

If not, why not? How could someone be considered in any way educated and not be able to intelligently answer all or nearly all of those questions? If they don't know about such essential and basic things, what do they know? Movies? The supposed dangers of global warming? The importance of race, gender and class? The meaning of menage a trois (or "threesomes")? Great gay writers?

Unfortunately, the chances are that if you receive any response at all to these questions, it will be a discouraging one. Outside of the natural sciences, colleges are either more interested in liberal indoctrination than in a liberal arts education, or they enable students to take courses that are so narrowly focused that your child graduate will likely graduate as a cultural and historical illiterate. Why so many Americans go into debt paying so much money to such failed institutions is one of the riddles of the universe.

It is time to demand that universities teach. Forcing them to answer the above seven questions is a good way to begin. Because granting a Bachelor of Arts degree on someone who never heard of Cain and Abel and never heard a Haydn symphony is a fraud.

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JamesW Wrote:I am presently a doctoral applicant at a brick and mortar university...Having applied I'm wondering what the typical admission process works like...

levicoff Wrote:Very simple: If you can pay the tuition, chances are that you will be accepted....That said, the game is all about diplomacy.

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...php?t=5202

Quote:...I think, though, that it's not really possible for me to make contributions that are of much value to DD, so I think I'll call it a day. I'll look in from time to time, but for now, thanks again - and goodbye. Senteacher.

Quote:The literary correspondence of Grimm and Diderot, and later of Meister, kept their readers informed of the latest books of this type [pornography]. And they did so rather cleverly; on the pretext of denouncing this base literature, they described it, quoted from it, indicated the selling prices and where the books could be obtained.

The G-man is constantly grandstanding and doesn't seem to be the least bit embarrassed about it. What a dick!

More Gollin Puffery

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...php?t=5130

When JB said this everyone believed him!

"Many job descriptions specify that a certain degree is required, or that additional salary will be paid, if a certain degree is held. In many of these situations, a good unaccredited degree will suffice."

San Francisco-based New College of California is about to lose its WASC accreditation.  

According to this article, it has been "on sanction" with WASC for 17 of the last 27 years!  Who knew?  Not the kind of thing you like to tell prospective students, so apparently nobody bothered.

Nice curriculum too, "degrees in activism and social change and women’s spirituality" according to this article.  Gee, and with such sure job magnet degrees how could they possibly be going bankrupt?

In a letter to the acting president, WASC stated a lengthy laundry list of deficiencies, including no stated policies for admissions, enrollment, student files and related records, award of credit, or award of grades.  

And this is a problem why?  I mean, they were RA weren't they?  It must be the "gold standard" of quality.  

This comment by a reader just about sums it up:

Quote:Right after moving to SF I was driving down Valencia Street and saw a bunch of seemingly strung out individuals hanging around what I thought was a methadone clinic. Having previously worked up state with addicts I thought I'd go home and get my resume to drop off in case they had any job openings.

When I returned to Valencia Street I found out what I thought was a methadone clinic was in fact New College.

Probably they were near dead anyways. But Robert Hill posted the end of the line for Sorbon. Anyone still defending this sham is beyond hope.

The damning evidence is located on DegreeBored:

http://forums.degreeboard.com/showthread...98&page=10

Did I miss the big announcement?  Did George Brown finally complete his 12 billion word dissertation and earn his doctorate from the University of Adelbrained?

Will he be offering to send copies of his diss to anyone who asks but then only send them to his friends, like Air Marshal Douglas did?  

Has anyone even read his diss?  Please, tell me it's not all done in crayon, is it?

Does this mean that George is now fully qualified to defend himself and doesn't need Peter French to do it for him?

Does this mean that George will now be telling all he knows about his involvement in the International College of Hotel Management scam?  Ha ha, don't hold your breath waiting for that one.

The ICHM Scam Explained

George Brown is he a bigger fraud than John Bear?

International College of Hotel Management FRAUD

International College of Hotel Management SILENCE

ICHM fraud "Cooks the books"

Bear flees as Brown is put on bail.

George Brown´s scam

Good thing those PhDs don't come with a morals clause, eh Georgie?

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