Educação - aspectos críticos

The Search for Knowledge
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~ Mark Twain
C. J. Maloney: "... Many years ago, during the dark times before the GI Bill and Sallie Mae, the overwhelming majority of Americans never earned a college degree. To become a "college man" meant having parents wealthy enough to ship you off to Princeton, Harvard, or some such place, where the progeny would earn themselves a lifetime of steady, well-remunerated employment through four years of intensive networking, drinking, rowing, debutante balls, and intercollegiate football matches accompanied by rousing fight songs. The finished product of this process was marked not with wisdom but its pale substitute – wit.
Included among "all the rights, privileges, and immunities thereunto appertaining" in the top school degree was an arrogance or, at best, a condescending sympathy towards all those not familiar with the interior of the University Club, all those poor cabdrivers, waiter staff, and subway riders who never even heard about that favorite famous professor of our memory, let alone took lessons at his feet.
The ideas birthed by our elite colleges in the late 1800s morphed America into a socialist democracy, this sea change has had a boomerang effect on our university system – it now operates under the premise that college equals education and everybody has a right to it. Politicians at all levels have borrowed against tomorrow to boost college attendance, and before all the seed corn ran out the university system gorged to its content – more Americans now hold college degrees than at any time in history. Yet, the industry’s outsized growth did not improve the product, but diluted what little it had to offer to begin with.
At the top rung of the system (in reputation, at least) are the Ivy League colleges, which have long been diploma mills producing legions of dumbasses, schemers, and charlatans by the bushel, every graduated brain stuffed with the irrational ravings of select madmen and emptied of any shred of humility. Chock full of an insatiable urge to "plan" and the ignorant arrogance to see it through, they are released upon humanity like a viral plaque to assume their rightful positions of leadership, forever after to blunder the world into one disaster or another.
From Princeton graduate Woodrow Wilson, who gave us World War One, the War on Drugs, and the income tax, to Yale and Harvard product George W. Bush, who gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, and turned America into a pervasive surveillance society, the mark of the Ivy League graduate has been nothing but bloodshed and fields filled with skull and bones, corruption of the idea of education, and a vast wasting of wealth and liberty.
The best we can do for our nation’s future greatness and posterity is to take Harvard, Princeton, every one of the Ivies in fact, and turn them all to more useful pursuits, such as teaching auto repair or plumbing. As for the poor saps who have already graduated and are running brain damaged about the globe, proudly waving their Ivy League degrees and causing untold mayhem, they are likely too far gone to be much use to anyone, though they might, after years of de-programming, make decent fry cooks...."
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