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1. Many people would be better off learning specific job skills rather than the typical academic college courses.
2. For those that do go into the more academic stuff, it's important that they learn how to think rather than what to think, or what to promote, or what stance to have.
If you have students being trained as activists, that's not teaching...its indoctrination. Teach them philosophy, science, reason, logic - tools that allow them to cut through all the BS and come to their own conclusions.
The author doesn't seem to understand that it's much better to teach students to think for themselves and be adaptable, the better to be able to adapt to a rapidly changing world, than training them to merely be cogs in the wheel of industry.
I think that's true, but in addition to thinking for themselves students need to learn how to support themselves and get by in the real world. Even the best critical thinkers need to earn a living and be productive in society.
Aren't most college students adults that have the free will to decide what their own education should be? If they want to learn political activism, that is is their choice to make. If they want a medical degree, that is their choice to make. I don't think the government should be regulating what we are allowed to learn, especially when college students pay insane amounts of money for said education.
Clearly, you haven't been in college for some time. The stuff he's referencing has permeates the humanities, the social sciences, is working its way into the real sciences and envelopes university administrations across the country. Worst of all, this stuff makes its way into public policy. The "school-to-prison pipeline" conspiracy theory in which K-12 administrators and teachers deliberately target black students for discipline, for example, resulted in an Obama Administration guidance that led to public schools not suspending/expelling dangerous students who victimize other students. There are many other examples.
That was one of the most poorly written and constructed "opinion" pieces I've read in quite awhile. The author needs to go back to school to learn how to write a coherent sentence and a logical argument.
As for its content, from what I could figure out, the author believes that teaching kids to think for themselves is bad. Encouraging kids to care about the world around them and about their fellow man is bad. Encouraging kids to find a wife or a husband and start a family is good. Teaching kids to be a carpenter is good.
To which specific sentences did you object in terms of sentence construction?
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