A professor at the University of Notre Dame is argued that higher education is drowning in “bullsh!t” in a recent column for the Chronicle.
Writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Notre Dame Professor Christian Smith argued in a column last week that higher education has some serious issues. BS is universities hijacked by the relentless pursuit of money and prestige, including chasing rankings that they know are deeply flawed, at the expense of genuine educational excellence (to be distinguished from the vacuous “excellence” peddled by recruitment and “advancement” offices in every run-of-the-mill university),” one complaint read.
Smith bemoaned the lacked of intellectual diversity in many academic fields, specifically the humanities and social sciences. He argues that the academics in these fields are hypocrites because they fail to live up to the values of diversity and tolerance that they often preach.
“BS is the grossly lopsided political ideology of the faculty of many disciplines, especially in the humanities and social sciences, creating a homogeneity of worldview to which those faculties are themselves oblivious, despite claiming to champion difference, diversity, and tolerance,” Smith wrote.
One of Smith’s complaints has been discussed multiple times in Breitbart News’ higher education coverage. Professors, especially in the “social justice” fields,” have a habit of forcing unnecessary made-up terms to make outsiders feel confused and unwelcome.
“BS is the ideologically infused jargon deployed by various fields to stake out in-group self-importance and insulate them from accountability to those not fluent in such solipsistic language games,” Smith wrote.
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Nothing new. Look at all the people you know or work with who are college degreed within the last 15 years. They are the dumbest , unengaged, and socially awkward people on earth. The can't figure out the simplest of situations. Actually I had a boss who graduated from Notre Dame. He was the stupidest individual. Come to find out he came from a company he drove it's engineering division into the ground. So they layed him off. He had some pull in the democrats who got him the job at the STATE.
ReplyDeleteI've heard this from lots of educators, that Liberal idiocy has taken over. It gets the kids' juices flowing, it makes the educators' jobs ridiculously undemanding, and it keeps the $$$ flow to make the administrators and boards happy. It's all become crap, even at the highest levels. How very sad.
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