Let Conservatives keep their kids out of college

Careful with open flames — your straw man above is so massive you could torch the whole neighborhood.

Now you still haven’t answered my question — are you capable of making a post without resorting to the ad hominem fallacy?

 

I would prefer an employee who can think critically and possesses some semblance of a work ethic.

 

Every time I see one of these moronic threads about College degrees being worthless, I always picture the OP being wheeled into a hospital with a heart attack and pointing to the janitor and saying, “I want HIM to do the surgery, not one of those liberal doctors from UCLA ...

 

Non sequitur.

 

LOL at this ridiculous pompous @$$ of a post.

 

Most people who drop out of high school ain't great on "work ethic."

 

More like opposed to indoctrination posing as education.

 

Trump fans may openly rail about the "librul" universities, i.e. "indoctrination machines". When it comes to their own children, however, they are in the rat race to send them to the best universities just like anyone else, whether they can afford it or not.

If Trump fans would actually keep their kids away from universities, that would make degrees all of a sudden a lot cheaper, due to lack of demand. That would be good for me and my children. However, that's not going to happen.

 

How so? Doesn't seem so hard for everyone else. Why are you struggling so much?

 

Interesting that you admit colleges are a bastion of liberal anti-American indoctrination.

 

I could be wrong, but I believe he was being sarcastic

 

Some engineering (mechanical IIRC) does not require you obtain a college degree to become one.

 

Ferdinand Waldo Demara seems to have done pretty well as a thoracic surgeon without a medical degree:

While at the Brothers of Christian Instruction, he became acquainted with a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr. That led to his most famous exploit, in which he masqueraded as Cyr, working as a trauma surgeon aboard HMCS Cayuga, a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War. He managed to improvise successful major surgeries and fend off infection with generous amounts of penicillin. His most notable surgical practices were performed on some sixteen Korean combat casualties who were loaded onto the Cayuga. All eyes turned to Demara, the only "surgeon" on board, as it became obvious that several of the casualties would require major surgery or certainly die. After ordering personnel to transport these variously injured patients into the ship's operating room and prep them for surgery, Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery. None of the casualties died as a result of Demara's surgeries. Apparently, the removal of a bullet from a wounded man ended up in Canadian newspapers. One person reading the reports was the mother of the real Joseph Cyr; her son at the time of "his" service in Korea was actually practicing medicine in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. The Canadian Navy chose not to press charges, and Demara returned to the United States.

IIRC the details correctly, the bullet he removed from the wounded man above was lodged less than an inch from his heart. When the surgery was successful, the observers aboard the Cayuga broke into applause.

 

Ah, the superficial approach. Brava. But fear not, the children will continue seeking higher education and learning irrespective of the hateful intolerance of those they find hiding within the walls of those institutions. Now, if only there was a way to start weeding out the bottom feeders that hide there. I recall, in undergrad, the couple of virulently socialist/communist professors at my institution. They were often cast as the trolls they were. There does seem to be a remarkable correlation between trollish behavior and socialist professors. And like all tales that include monsters, the children will find ways to vanquish them before said trolls can put them in ovens...

 

Higher education?

Learning in their (parents) basement?

Hiding in the walls?

 

Apologies in advance if I exceeded the third grade reading comprehension level.....

 

'Prolly the beer goggles at play.

 

You mean universities like Notre Dame and Baylor?

 

I'm studying quantum physics in an accredited university.

You were home schooled I presume?

Tell me about Jesus then.

 

I sit corrected. First grade reading rules in effect......

 

Oooh, good one!

(You do know this forum is not for conversation, but for insult?)

 

As you have demonstrated. For the rest of us, I guess we just have to become better battling the trolls.... and using super small words, and short sentences to make sure we are understood....

 

"De facto"? If you know of any employer asking about a degree when the position doesn't require it, I'm sure the ACLU would love to hear about it. Employers know that is not a question they should be asking.

 

Oh noes! r u implying I'm a troll!

I hope I don't get banned, that would break my heart.

 

My son graduated from John Carroll University, and my daughter is a freshman there. John Carroll is a Jesuit university. There are 28 Jesuit colleges in the US. JC has has a great physics program. Jesuits are a product of the HRE. Jesus, Christianity more broadly adopted by Constantine the great have had profound influence on education, and humanity ... where would one begin?