The drop in college enrollment has nothing to do with intrinsic motivation and everything to do with the fact that from the late 1960s on, college has been nothing but a vehicle for leftist indoctrination of students. The fact that liberal arts degrees are worthless on their face has led to the unemployability of liberal arts students. A second factor is the war the feminist secondary teaching cadre has been carrying out against male students for over a quarter of a century. Read Christina Hoff-Sommers on
The War Against Boys. I had to raise a bright, gifted and talented son in that system and witnessed first hand what the feminists teachers did to undercut his self-esteem and academic performance. Grades have nothing to do with any of this. Work has to be graded if progress is to be made. And just as no one can trust today's students not to cheat, in the same way they cannot be trusted to assign their own grades. Standards must be imposed from the outside, and it is outside judgment that must determine whether these have been met or not.
This is also true. This is very true. My bright son got to his highly reputable college and they did the Privilege Walk. Students were asked a series of questions and each time they answered 'yes' they took a step forward, separating themselves from the group. Questions were things like "Did you grow up with books in the house?" "Are you white and male?" "Are your parents married?" At the end he was ahead of everyone else and made to feel shame. It made me so mad I wanted to pull him immediately. I didn't, of course, based on his pleas. They went on to fill his head full of garbage for 4 years.
I think it's a bad idea. Everytime we make an exception for verifying the merit of a student, we get closer to a non-merit based society. Most students neither have the maturity, the experience or the perspective (not to mention the skills) to assess themselves. That's why they're students.
Is that a serious question unless you have someone who has some idea what is a good or bad bad degree and if you think if they could get away with it in subjects that are not specific like an engineering degree or law or something where you really had to know what you were talking about. I would hope that they would be sensible but the arts and English particularly Psychology yeah I reckon they would.
The drop in college enrollment has nothing to do with intrinsic motivation and everything to do with the fact that from the late 1960s on, college has been nothing but a vehicle for leftist indoctrination of students. The fact that liberal arts degrees are worthless on their face has led to the unemployability of liberal arts students. A second factor is the war the feminist secondary teaching cadre has been carrying out against male students for over a quarter of a century. Read Christina Hoff-Sommers on
The War Against Boys. I had to raise a bright, gifted and talented son in that system and witnessed first hand what the feminists teachers did to undercut his self-esteem and academic performance. Grades have nothing to do with any of this. Work has to be graded if progress is to be made. And just as no one can trust today's students not to cheat, in the same way they cannot be trusted to assign their own grades. Standards must be imposed from the outside, and it is outside judgment that must determine whether these have been met or not.
This is also true. This is very true. My bright son got to his highly reputable college and they did the Privilege Walk. Students were asked a series of questions and each time they answered 'yes' they took a step forward, separating themselves from the group. Questions were things like "Did you grow up with books in the house?" "Are you white and male?" "Are your parents married?" At the end he was ahead of everyone else and made to feel shame. It made me so mad I wanted to pull him immediately. I didn't, of course, based on his pleas. They went on to fill his head full of garbage for 4 years.
When I did that exercise I actually ended up standing behind two of my black students.
I think it's a bad idea. Everytime we make an exception for verifying the merit of a student, we get closer to a non-merit based society. Most students neither have the maturity, the experience or the perspective (not to mention the skills) to assess themselves. That's why they're students.
I’m just a realist
Is that a serious question unless you have someone who has some idea what is a good or bad bad degree and if you think if they could get away with it in subjects that are not specific like an engineering degree or law or something where you really had to know what you were talking about. I would hope that they would be sensible but the arts and English particularly Psychology yeah I reckon they would.
What a true shame.