Like the article. Was thinking of Justin Stapely's own contention that instead of abandoning the GOP and creating a 3rd party (something I have flirted with) build a caucus WITHIN the party to reclaim when Trumpism fails (after last night's debate that might come sooner than expected).
Thinking Kimberly is on the same track. Would be nice to feature a sensible, corrective curriculum to my favorite bête noire, The 1619 Project.
Have to say, as much as I think not every should go to college and trade school is a great option for a certain type of hard-working go-getter who doesn’t like academics, I’ve noticed that a lot of adults who never went to college are a little naive and a little gullible or sheltered at times (college grads have their own biases and conspiracy tendencies, but that’s a different issue). I think it’s honestly a selection effect more than any result of education itself - the young people who aren’t likely to go to college are the ones more likely to grow up to be gullible and sheltered adults, and the young people who go to college are the ones more able to see shades of gray. But it is true that conservatives who write off college altogether, like conservatives who write off cities altogether, are shutting themselves out of important pillars of civilization.
As with anything in life, there are tradeoffs. I myself wonder about whether I want my kids (when I have kids) to go to public school and I have serious concerns about all possible answers to that question.
When I left college in 2015 and became a police officer without having finished my degree, I would be lying if part of the decision-making process in doing so wasn't in response to my, at the time, avid consumption of right-wing radio shows, such as Sean Hannity, and the anti-institutional vibe that I picked up from listening. Since then, I've come to value the refining experience of being conservative in academia. If anything, I feel sorry for the kids who go through college without being introduced to other ways of thinking and who don't have their assumptions challenged, who haven't had to defend themselves against a higher level of intellectual opposition. Both the through the homogenous experience of the academy on one side and through the retreating to each chambers and protest places on the other, we have infantilized young adulthood.
Yeah I imbibed some of that attitude too. Only later did a lightbulb click on in my head: almost all of those guys have college degrees and grad degrees themselves. They talk a big game about what a waste of time college is, but they mean for other people, not them.
Like the article. Was thinking of Justin Stapely's own contention that instead of abandoning the GOP and creating a 3rd party (something I have flirted with) build a caucus WITHIN the party to reclaim when Trumpism fails (after last night's debate that might come sooner than expected).
Thinking Kimberly is on the same track. Would be nice to feature a sensible, corrective curriculum to my favorite bête noire, The 1619 Project.
Have to say, as much as I think not every should go to college and trade school is a great option for a certain type of hard-working go-getter who doesn’t like academics, I’ve noticed that a lot of adults who never went to college are a little naive and a little gullible or sheltered at times (college grads have their own biases and conspiracy tendencies, but that’s a different issue). I think it’s honestly a selection effect more than any result of education itself - the young people who aren’t likely to go to college are the ones more likely to grow up to be gullible and sheltered adults, and the young people who go to college are the ones more able to see shades of gray. But it is true that conservatives who write off college altogether, like conservatives who write off cities altogether, are shutting themselves out of important pillars of civilization.
As with anything in life, there are tradeoffs. I myself wonder about whether I want my kids (when I have kids) to go to public school and I have serious concerns about all possible answers to that question.
When I left college in 2015 and became a police officer without having finished my degree, I would be lying if part of the decision-making process in doing so wasn't in response to my, at the time, avid consumption of right-wing radio shows, such as Sean Hannity, and the anti-institutional vibe that I picked up from listening. Since then, I've come to value the refining experience of being conservative in academia. If anything, I feel sorry for the kids who go through college without being introduced to other ways of thinking and who don't have their assumptions challenged, who haven't had to defend themselves against a higher level of intellectual opposition. Both the through the homogenous experience of the academy on one side and through the retreating to each chambers and protest places on the other, we have infantilized young adulthood.
Yeah I imbibed some of that attitude too. Only later did a lightbulb click on in my head: almost all of those guys have college degrees and grad degrees themselves. They talk a big game about what a waste of time college is, but they mean for other people, not them.