Question yourself.
Would you want your child to get a college education?
Doesn't sound like it from some of the discussion here.
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Not at all, O.F.. The problem is finding a school which provides an
education without
indoctrination!. Ther are some schools not shot through with socialism, they are few and far between but tyhey are excellent ones. Some of the Christian universities as well as Hillsboro, Grove City etc..
It is hard for a decent, non-leftist school to operate since unlike conservatives, leftists holding power insist that a college indoctrinate socialism or they don't recieve public funds.
Thus, schools such as Hillsboro , Grove City etc have had the stones to tell the government parasites where they can put their bribery money!
What we are discussing most in this forum are daily life, political and constitutional issues. What makes a 10th grade music taecher any more qualified to debate the constitution than any one of us here? What would make an 8th grade French teacher any more qualified to discuss social values than anyone on this forum?
I will defer to the music teacher on music or the French teacher on French...but I am at least as well qualified to debate with them on 2nd amendment rights and what our founding fathers were getting at in the Federalist papers..as they are likely to be .
Yes, I have a degree but I don't use it as a club..I will fairly debate anyone without mentioning the same. I have a brother who has several degrees and has spent his life in academia and although he is very highly respected in his fields of endeavor, there are few subjects where he can toe-to-toe me on subjects unrelated to either of our fields.
He like many highly educated, makes the same mistake, thinking that outside of formal classes learning ends for most people. Nothing could be further from the truth...I read and study various pursuits at least as much or more than he does.
Like one of the "good old boys" I have coffee with each morning. He is a Doctor ..Doctor of veterinary medicine (Penn State & Cornell)..our discussions at the 'round-table' (actually, a long table), cover a voluminous number of subjects. I defer to him in anything in the medical and related fields..and I have taught him in sunjects of my familiarity and expertise, other guys construction, highway superintendant, a farmer, other times a Phd in psychiatry..each contributing..each learning; ..nothing surprising about that. We did have a mathematics prof., but he suddenly died about a year ago..Phil was a great guy, he is missed.
BTW: Hillsdale college is so concerned wit our nation's direction..that they offer a free course on the constitution;
http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/ Before you ask, Hillsdale is not just an "online college", but a well respected brick & mortar institution..
http://www.hillsdale.edu/