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is the American university system losing its sheen?
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Universities (minus the beta courses), is increasingly becoming an irrelevance. This erstwhile center of scholaticism and science has now become just another den of the Far Left. I doubt many will survive a counter-revolution.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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what do u think the future congregations of knowledge-seekers will look like and manifest themselves as?Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker
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Online communities, I reckon. Maybe as in so-called "free universities" online combined with personal apprenticeship.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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i think education needs to return to elitism, and also focus more on experimental methods of science. If we go down a path of online education, that may be just another form of democratization that will not lead to much ingenuity. Because we all know the lowest common denominator contributed practically nothing to knowledge.
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MIT used to be the only elite university in America that is still untouched by this type of thing decades ago and that's probably because its overflowing with Asian students.
Things certainly started getting worse and gender and race politics pushed much harder when (((Rafael Reif))) became president. The general Obama progressive wave was also responsible.
Newer students coming in with more SJW philosophy than those graduating. Courses were definitely softening to protect their more delicate "mental health," and the high up administration reads like a Tel Aviv phone book.
However, in the deepest research labs of places like MIT they don't have time for SJW nonsense, they are also pretty good about self-segregating the SJW's as they LITERALLY have their own sides of campus. Compared to Ivies and Stanford it is the most redpilled top tier university.
The top end schools are no longer viewed as the epitome due to insane nepotism and crazy SJW warrior shit. You have PETA activists telling people how to make bombs, government subsidised lecturers preaching the benefits of abstinence at high schools.
That said whatever MIT's official stances and whatever the media writes about them, fact of the matter is there are better people and resources there than almost anywhere in America.
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Colleges in America have been a joke for about 80 years now. Also, Americans do not have a bloodline Aristocracy, like in Britain, so the American middle classes delusionally thought/think they could substitute college degrees for proper aristocratic breeding. Americans also retardedly think the whole point of going to college is to get a better job and if college 'makes you think too much' then it is 'bad'. That is 100% RETARDED !
Traditionally , the American upper classes have known if its not ivy league such as Harvard or Yale it's crap but that might not be the case anymore as pretty much all American colleges are crap now.
MIT is a joke too and always has been, for instance, Murray Gell-Mann wanted to commit suicide when he found out he was accepted to MIT and not Harvard , Princeton or Yale.
John Taylor Gatto has bluntly stated that “[n]o one believes that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.”
Individuals in the top 5 percent of the adult IQ distribution (above IQ 125) can essentially train ourselves, and few occupations are beyond our reach mentally. I trained myself to be a computer programmer.
Some famous autodidacts including Leonardo Da Vinci:
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist, and writer. However, Leonardo was not autodidactic in his study of the arts, as he was trained through the Guild system, just as other Renaissance artists had been.
James Watt, the mechanical engineer who improved the steam engine, was "largely self taught."
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system never graduated from university.[36]
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.
Blaise Pascal, was a mathematician, philosopher, physicist and inventor who was home-schooled.[41]
Galileo Galilei, astronomer, engineer, mathematician and physicist. Dropped out of college.
Michael Faraday, the chemist and physicist. Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history. Some historians[42] of science refer to him as the best experimentalist in the history of science.
George Boole was a largely self-taught mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the information age.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a mathematical autodidact.
Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was largely self-taught in mathematics. Ramanujan is notable as an autodidact for having developed thousands of new mathematical theorems despite having no formal education in mathematics, contributing substantially to the analytical theory of numbers, elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.[43]
And many more ... :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts
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I see all the usual America bashing suspects made it to this thread. So because two nerdy chicks went to Cambridge that proves American Universities are losing there sheen?Besides Cambridge, Oxford, and a few select colleges, the top 100 or so US universities dominate the rankings. I mean if we are to bash America colleges, what does that make the mediocre selection of colleges in a second tier Anglosphere country like Canada? Oh, the University of Toronto, wow!
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It lost it's relevance 30 years ago.
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Nigga, you are delusionally retarded. Americans with Bachelors' degrees cannot even read at the international college level.I see all the usual America bashing suspects made it to this thread. So because two nerdy chicks went to Cambridge that proves American Universities are losing there sheen?
College level reading is called syntopical but most Americans do not reach this level of reading until graduate school if ever. It is essential for critical thinking and original research etc...
"We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less will satisfy the needs of the world that is coming." -- Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren 1972 "How To Read a Book"
Americans are not taught critical reasoning skills but are brow beaten to accept scholastic 'facts' as if they were handed down from God :
Education — Instead of public education being used to teach children healthy learning attitudes, they are used for the opposite, to indoctrinate children with dogma, often patently false, even known to be false by the officials imposing the education.[4]
Propaganda — After being taught to read ( at a basic non-syntopical level) but not weigh evidence and form original opinions, children become adults who are then subjected to dubious or obviously false claims for the rest of their lives.
Economic pressure — The State and political class will use its control of finances and economy to impose its ideas, by restricting the choices of those who disagree.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free...ial_Propaganda
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