Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
All these children are going to be in a for a real shock when they enter the working world. Academia is a little bubble isolated from reality. It's all fun and games while there, then you hit the 'real' world, and you've got to grow up very fast.
All these children are going to be in a for a real shock when they enter the working world. Academia is a little bubble isolated from reality. It's all fun and games while there, then you hit the 'real' world, and you've got to grow up very fast.
Yes... but only to a point. I've had a couple of interns and worked with a couple of new grads. I'm not optimistic at all. Not that there's any "planning" going on, but the plan is for people who grew up this way to eventually be the ones creating the 'real' world. That will happen naturally.
The really interesting thing to ponder is what happens when the CHILDREN of today's college students enter the workforce in 30-35 years. I think we'd better have Artificial General Intelligence making a lot of the decisions by then. I think 2050 is the year we have more AI doing jobs than we have American humans doing jobs, and the year Universal Basic Income becomes the law of the land.
Your kid can look at critically thinking as part of the process of breaking things down into manageable parts. Many times, the things which need to be critically analyzed are things which concern us given its complexity.
Someone said once, Tackling real world problems can make sustainability issues more tangible and meaningful to students.
So your kids should be exposed to real life situation like this, it will be good for them in my opinion.
I went to two fairly liberal universities. One art institute, the other one UCLA. It is going to be okay. I hope the professor can hold his job, he handled situation pretty darn well. He obviously won the debate.
I went to Cal. I definitely encountered many of these infamous ultra-liberal posterchildren, but I just as frequently met libertarians and Objectivists (lol, I may have been one myself at some point ) and everything in-between (not to suggest that the two ideologies are completely mutually exclusive).
I think being in that environment did more to foster critical thinking than a small private Christian college in a relatively homogenous area would have.
I was going to say the same thing to the OP. These are the same old videos.
However, I'll state like I just stated a few days ago in a similar thread that these students should transfer to an HBCU where they actually will get a family environment while they are pursuing their educations.
I went to Cal. I definitely encountered many of these infamous ultra-liberal posterchildren, but I just as frequently met libertarians and Objectivists (lol, I may have been one myself at some point ).
I think being in that environment did more to foster critical thinking than a small private Christian college in a relatively homogenous area would have.
I actually went to a private religious school overseas
There wasn't anything "religious" about it believe it or not, well, other than religion class and mandatory mass. There was no incorporated religion into your studies.
Religious school, well, like everything in life, some like it, others don't, to each his own. I have life long friends from all over the world because of this.
I don't get why people are so sensitive to things today, this, to me, is what is killing America.
......................
and talk about the ability to tolerate???? My God, she says she does not feel safe because of that?
Wow, these kids don't have a clue...wait until they get out in the real world....
Thanks so much and thank you BentBow
1) It's a big country and the most salacious stories are the ones that make the news so it makes the problem seem worse than it really is.
2) Until they get out in the real world? Um nope....many never enter the "real world" and insulate themselves just like many others with extremely polarized world views that can't get along with normal people. They wind up working at jobs where most everyone thinks like them. This is true for lots of people.
I actually went to a private religious school overseas
There wasn't anything "religious" about it believe it or not, well, other than religion class and mandatory mass. There was no incorporated religion into your studies.
I attended a small private Catholic university in the states for two years (~80 credits of the 250 I have now). Great place which built critical thinkers able to synthesize arguments and knowledge from facts. I avoided the Theology classes and there was nothing religious about any of my other studies there.
yeah.. I actually enjoyed my "religious" school. UCLA and my art institute are great also. Different experiences. I feel overly aggressive students are the least popular. They are normally viewed as clowns.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
) and everything in-between (not to suggest that the two ideologies are completely mutually exclusive).
