Maybe they’d be better off at the beach.
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Maybe they’d be better off at the beach.
When outspoken conservative Paul Gottfried gave a lecture at Hamilton College, he was literally outspoken.
It is a sign of an awakening economy when jobs go begging. It is also an indication of the futility of higher education today.
At the University of Utah.
And other liberal institutions.
Although the encounter was far more civil than most college meet-ups.
Student activists at Reed College, after gaining concessions from the college administration on a humanities 101 course curriculum, are now demanding more changes.
Proposals to force colleges and universities to boycott, divest from and sanction (BDS) Israel keep failing in the most left-wing of enclaves, such as the Modern Language Association (MLA). Nevertheless proponents of the measure keep putting forth BDS propositions with increasing stridency.
You’ll have to learn about guilt and shame somewhere else.
Economist Walter Williams has called education schools the ghettos of universities and, like some neighborhoods that might be described that way, they resist improvement even when their deterioration is obvious to everyone outside their borders.