964: The failure of American higher education to educate tomorrow. @VDHanson
Image: Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re: Students at Hillsdale are aware that [something is wrong]; Stanford students are not. Students are getting married much later, can't buy a house: the cost of university at $30,000 a year is preventing that. A curriculum that creates ignorant but arrogant students. University says, “We’re not responsible for helping you get a job.” It all leads back to university, which has become corrupt, needs an audit and transparency. A Medieval society: a bunch of very rich administrators and full professors, all subsidized by part-time teachers making fraction of that with no benefits—with a progressive, egalitarian patina. The Animal Farm pigs don’t want to be attacked by animals— “I’m beyond reproach, am tenured.” They usually pick on some part-time teacher who has no tenure. Peasants outside the castle with the faculty living up in the keep. Alumni donate huge endowments that inexplicably are not taxable. https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/03/defenders-of-civilization/