Advice to the College-Bound from
the Old, White Professor
American Thinker,
by
Abraham H. Miller
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/4/2019 11:48:27 AM
In a few weeks, some of you will be going off to college. But before you commit yourself to the decision and the ensuing financial burden, there are a few things you should know.Nearly all college experiences begin with a series of orientation sessions. Most start with the assumption that you are the cursed offspring of a flawed society. You come to college not to be educated but to be reeducated. You have imbibed of racism, sexism, and homophobia. And for some outrageous amount of tuition that will send many of you into perpetual debt, the modern-day Gletkins of academia will purge you of these impure thoughts.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/4/2019 12:11:52 PM (No. 142440)
By the time these revisionists get finished with American history it will be Black people who owned all the slaves because there will be no trace of white people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Socaworld 8/4/2019 12:55:21 PM (No. 142503)
I've been teaching in the Big Ten for twenty years. Great, great Mid-West experience with great kids. Then something changed, and accelerated in the last ten years or so. I couldn't figure it out at first. But then I realized: the institutional pressures from an ever-growing cadre of administrators/bureaucrats, who enforce laws, regulations, and other threats to academic freedom. "Diversity" is an undefined cudgel to keep everyone in line, even though nobody seems to know precisely what it is. Disability is another fraud. Little Miss Snowflake can get Mummy and Daddy-kins' family doctor to write a note, entitling the kid to extra time, quiet rooms, etc. etc.,which is discriminatory to the 95% of the students who want to go through the process honestly. If you match dollars spent to value received, most undergraduate programs (ok, not STEM) are a waste of time, money, and effort. Learn a trade, start a business, go into the military. After a few years, when you are grown up and have saved some money, then you can make a more intelligent decision about your life, instead of succumbing to peer and parental pressure to go to college.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 8/4/2019 12:58:45 PM (No. 142512)
Mostly, STAY AWAY.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/4/2019 1:00:26 PM (No. 142514)
Agree with #2. Unless you have a career oriented STEM path lined out, stay the hell out of college. Save a lot of money, get some real skills in the work force and keep you mind.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HerbVA 8/4/2019 1:02:15 PM (No. 142516)
The White Man built civilization, from Jerusalem to Greece to Rome to the Enlightenment to Philadelphia. Anything wothwhile that was invented, built, grown, and improved was accomplished by the White Man. Now the heirs of that legacy are supposed to be guilt-ridden supplicants to a bunch of useless college teachers and bureaucrats?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BillW. 8/4/2019 1:06:55 PM (No. 142520)
Stay far, far away.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Penney 8/4/2019 1:21:06 PM (No. 142542)
How sad that once respected universities have drifted so far left that they can no longer be trusted for a quality education. These famous icons of, 'higher education,' seem to now place poisoning American history & culture as their second highest priority. Their first priority is their own shelf engrandizement! ...mmm mmm mmm
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 8/4/2019 1:22:08 PM (No. 142545)
My grandsons are 16 and 18. I printed this out for each of them. They spent every summer with me doing all kinds of fun stuff that kids love, but after lunch when I was driving them home each day, we listened to Rush Limbaugh! In addition to those two I have two granddaughters (now 22 and 29) who live in Chicago but came to visit each summer and listened to Rush, too. I am proud to call these four Conservative young people my legacy.
(My super power is great parking karma!)
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/4/2019 3:16:17 PM (No. 142655)
Yeah, #5, but you are not supposed to notice that, and we are supposed to feel guilty about it.
NOT.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/4/2019 3:34:00 PM (No. 142664)
Agree with #2 who saw the indoctrination first hand. Would be interesting, #2, to understand from your perspective, how do we break academia from this progressive vice?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 8/4/2019 3:56:29 PM (No. 142675)
The parents of students who attend orientation go through the same BS. The adult version isn't overt as what the kids receive, but there is enough BS in it that I almost lost it. Four years later at my son's graduation, I watched as over one thousand students graduated. Even my wife commented at the number of females in the class graduating. If the class had been made up of just males, the ceremony would have lasted all of 15 minutes instead of the two hours it took. If just white males, it would have been less than 5 minutes. I thought back to the BS orientation my son had to go through, and I wondered why they even bothered with the sexual harassment and race baiting part which was directed squarely at white male students.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/4/2019 6:16:16 PM (No. 142730)
Am old. When I was a freshman (now called fresh ones or simply first year students) college and universities acted as filters to eliminate students who don't belong there. They took pride in flunking students out. English 101 was a killer. Along with math, chemistry and physics. We were led to a large room and told to look at the person sitting to our left and right and that only one of us would graduate from college. It was felt that one of the cruelest things you could do to anyone was to waste 4 years of their life and 4 years of their parents money to give them a useless degree. Nowadays, student retention is one of the holy grails along with diversity. It doesn't matter how dumb your are we are determined that you get a degree. As long as we get your money. Decades ago congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act or something like that. But clever college administrators decided that stupidity was a disability. Part of this is just changes in attitude. Decades ago if you could figure something out it wasn't idiot proof. Now the term used is User Friendly. At the university I used to be affiliated with we had both a Vice President and a Vice Provost just for Diversity. Nobody wants diversity. Diversity means you'd have to spend just as much time eating Road Kill as Prime Rib. You'd have to spend just as much time watching bad movies as good movies. But I imagine if you talked to people in any generation they'd tell you the current generation is going to Hillary.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 8/5/2019 1:29:33 AM (No. 142971)
Yes, #12. My first class in college was Chemistry 201. One day one, the professor, Prof Baxter, head of the Chemistry Dept came in to a very full steep stadium seating lecture hall with about 150 students. He said exactly what you said, except about THAT COURSE. Chem 201 was the flunk out course, followed by Chem 202 and Chem 203. He said, "Look to your left and to your right. Only one third of you here will finish Chem 203 with a passing grade, based on a dozen years of history."
He was right. I got an A in Chem 201, 202 and 203, but I worked my butt off to get those As.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/5/2019 1:30:12 AM (No. 142972)
excuse me - "On day one..."
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