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The road to “miseducation” in American, Canadian, and British universities is paved with bad intentions. Universities used to be places where youth with almost blank minds could have discussions, deliberations, and debates enabling them to form their policies, practices, and politics for a lifetime. But those days are long gone and today’s schools don’t plan […]
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Leave a Comment (In the “old days” it was character, competence, and commitment that mattered in professional life. A man could become a lawyer, without college, by “reading the law” as did Abraham Lincoln and James Byrnes, former member of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941). But we are in a “more enlightened” day and everyone has to “jump […]
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Leave a Comment (Universities used to be places where students struggled with English, math, science, accounting, etc., with occasional breaks for a football or basketball game. Not anymore. There are numerous non-academic distractions, discussions, and debates that (after four years) produce frivolous, foolish frauds leaving with a degree that they can hardly read–literally! But they sure know how […]
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Leave a Comment (Parents are fools to pay huge tuition fees to prestigious universities who provide a degree but little education to their students. They should learn the lesson of the tulip mania. In early 1637 in the Netherlands, ordinary tulip bulbs (that bloom for about a week in the spring!) sold for more than 10 times the […]
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