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EPISODE · Sep 8, 2019 · 37 MIN

No. 14 Bookworm Podcast

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The American college has lost its way. Saving it requires removing all taxpayer funds and refocusing the mission on high-level, job-based skills. Several people have emailed me the link to Victor Davis Hanson's latest article at American Greatness, entitled From Icon to Just a Con. It's about the downfall of America's colleges and universities. My friends have sent the link to me because, if they've followed my blog over the last 15 years, they know that it's peppered with my disdain, disrespect, dislike, and sometimes downright hatred for education in America, from elementary school to post-graduate degrees. When my kids were younger, after I transferred them from a Montessori school to public school, my attacks were aimed at a few specific issues. The first was that their teachers were, with almost no exceptions, young, pretty, good-natured . . . and totally moronic women, none of whom knew nothing outside of their teaching manuals. (To read more of this content, and to find videos and hyperlinks, go here.)

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