Stop Sending Your Boys to College Indoctrination Camps
... and maybe stop sending the girls as well?
It’s been said before, but…
Universities are indoctrination centers.
… and they apparently don’t want males to be there anymore.
The wonderful readers of this newsletter surely understand that. However, I feel like I am beating my head against a brick wall when speaking with others.
How can one look at the most cited sources in academia, that disgusting legion of perverts and Marxists, and not believe that public education is a wasteland? They peddle bad ideas, nonsensical ideology, and terrible indoctrination that woefully prepares students for the future.
The university is no longer a sacred institution. It is a place where one goes to get indebted for life.
Isn’t it time we avoid this indentured servitude?
A return to normalcy might involved more trade schools, teenage employment, and less therapy.
For a while now James Altucher has been writing articles like Don’t Send Your Kids to College and Why College is Going Down the Drain.
He had this to say,
So what should people do instead?
One idea: start a business. You don’t need to be an entrepreneur to get valuable experience selling a service, or buying some set of goods cheap and selling them expensive.
A year or two of that will be a massive education in salesmanship, finance, and how to deal with the ups and downs of any business. And if you’re missing out on the 500 page books on The Deconstruction of Televisionthen buy a Kindle and read in your spare time. Maybe travel a bit. Or learn to paint.
All of these things can be done cheap, will provide massive life experience, and maybe even make some money.
Altucher did not want to send his girls off to college. At least one decided to go, but he ended up winning in the end.
First it started with this,
Her college sent this email to me and my daughter at the end of her second year.
“Dear [XXXX], This in an IMPORTANT email reminding you of your debt to [ABCD College] in the amount of $16.92!
This amount is your Damage fee you were assessed back in May.
It is VERY important that you submit payment in full as SOON as possible to insure your debt is not assessed further finance fees/late fees or WORSE… go off to a COLLECTION AGENCY the end of SEPTEMBER.
I would HATE for you debt to go off to a collection agency or ATTORNEY which would cause you harm, so if you would like to call me and discuss possible payment plan arrangements I’m willing to help.
Please contact me ASAP!!!”
But, then it ended with this…
This year she did NOT go back to college for her Junior year.
She found a job related to her passion and also a valuable internship. She has made friends.
She refused to use my connections to get her job.
She is using money from her job to get an apartment with roommates.
She is learning.
I am a very proud father.
The college has a brand new microwave.
The longer version of the article shows the ridiculousness of college administration. The fees are ludicrous and many of the classes are a waste of time.
The Fallacy of Learning to Think in College
With lessons like that why would anyone be led to believe college is teaching others to think? Many of the best lessons in life are learned in gap years, entrepreneurial endeavors, and travel abroad.
He writes…
WHAT SHOULD I DO INSTEAD?
Study many things. Study things you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy anything, work on a charity or travel the world (yes, this costs money but it’s cheaper than college).
Work at a job. If you want to be a doctor, work at a hospital and see if you really enjoy it.
Read every day. Five pages a day.
Learn these skills that are critical in every aspect of life but are never taught in college:
a. Sales
b. Negotiating
c. Well-being / Positive psychology
d. Failure
e. Communication
Beyond that, the whole thing is a bit of a financial scam. Isn’t everything the government gets its greedy paws on a joke? Milton Friedman once said…
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
However, the university isn’t missing sand, it’s missing brain cells.
Sometimes it is better to get hands-on experience in something that interests you.
I [Altucher] put in my 10,000 hours of programming. I knew how to build an operating system. I could take apart and put together a computer.
If I lived in the 1800s I probably could invent computers. I thought I was good.
When I got my first job in “the real world” I was a programmer. My second day on the job I crashed the entire network and lost everyone’s email.
My boss came into my cubicle (very embarrassing since everyone in the cubicles around could hear and would later gossip) and said, “We really want you to work out but it’s not so we are going to send you to remedial school on computers.”
I drove two hours every day to go to a remedial class in computer programming. I learned how to program then and eventually started three or four software companies and invested in dozens of others.
Sounds like personal experience and failure paid off for him in the end.
However, because of the lack of emphasis on real-world problem solving males are not seeing the benefits of a college degree. They are leaving in record numbers. Women will probably leave next. Watch the video above for more of my take on these issues.
Thirty-five + years leading Human Resource Departments and recruiting has shown that tech schools produce skilled driven students that know/knew what they wanted to study and why. So many college grads took mandatory courses and recieved degrees that they “thought” would bring them instant success. As with all things it is not all or always but over the years a general increase in thinking. Tech school and trade schools offer much to those that want to learn and progress.
Unskool, excellent writing! I am not formally against "higher education" but it is definitely not the only way to learn. For things like becoming a physician or such, higher education would be needed, in the context of those specific skills. For most of us, learn by doing is key. That is what I have done. I made it somehow through one year of college back in 1972-1973 but most of the experience was an overwhelming disaster. I have what I call a "PH.D" in street smarts and learn by doing. Real life is found outside a book. I always say, one can learn more about the real world in a couple of weeks of a simple job, than weeks or years of book learning and teacher indoctrination.
I love to read and books are a great resource. We also need people to learn from, such as apprenticing and the wonderful trade schools out there. Some of this is "class consciousness" and upper classes can look down on ordinary people...but I would say to a substantial degree, that ordinary people keep the country going: firefighters, law enforcement, transit such as roads, bridges, etc., the basic structures that keep towns and cities going. Head knowledge is great as long as it is not Leftist indoctrination. WEW