Businessmen hiring college graduates and parents facing the expense of college educations should recognize that the elite Ivy League schools, by their own admission, do little to educate their students. The end product too often is little more than a bunch of supercilious anti-Americans who have been inculcated with socialism’s atheistic materialism.
Suzanne Fields observes in the November 6, 2006, edition of the Washington Times that Senator John Kerry’s condescension toward our military personnel is the almost universal attitude in our elite schools, throughout the nation.
John Kerry’s insult of the troops in Iraq actually offered a little insight. His “advice” to students at Pasadena City Community College in California would have been conventional wisdom on almost any “elite” campus, particularly in the Ivy League, where almost anyone is eager to tell you that only chumps go to Iraq—or anywhere within the sound of the guns....
But the senator’s inadvertent insight hasn’t received the notice it deserves: A college education doesn’t necessarily make someone smart. In “Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” Harry R. Lewis, dean of Harvard College, describes what Harvard students don’t learn even when they study. “In the absence of any pronouncement that anything is more important than anything else for Harvard students to know, Harvard is declaring that one can be an educated person in the 21st century without knowing anything about genomes, chromosomes, or Shakespeare.”
Derek Bok, Harvard’s current president, echoes and extends this criticism in “Our Underachieving Colleges,” where students can’t write, can’t reason, can’t speak or read a foreign language, and lack the ability to think critically. “Most,” he writes, “have never taken a course in quantitative reasoning or acquired the knowledge needed to be a reasonably informed citizen in a democracy.” Worse, they don’t know what they don’t know. Surveys show these naive relativists, destructive deconstructionists and superficial sophomore philosophers, incapable of analyzing and dissecting even their own ideas, to be immensely pleased with their educations. Maybe it’s just as well they don’t serve in the military.....
A prejudice against the military, coupled with grade inflation and lack of intellectual discipline, combine to create spoiled and pampered students who lack the will to defend their country from those who would destroy it....
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