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August 14, 2014
Unsurprisingly, elite indoctrination makes Americans more ignorant about the realities of population and immigration.
Gallup noted, “In an interesting twist, Americans with less formal educationare the most likely to correctly attribute population growth to immigration, while Americans with post-graduate education are least likely to do so.” Only 37 percent of people with a postgraduate degree knew what they were talking about, compared to 56 percent who had never been to college.News From the Future - The Unz Review
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Persons with degrees today are indoctrinated, not educated. If they cannot feed back that pap to the Prof, they get the big F and Mummy and Poppy will cut of the credit card.
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at August 14, 2014 8:01 AM
That's why Dilbert consults his garbage man when seeking wisdom.
Posted by: BillH at August 14, 2014 8:06 AM
V.W.
That's over-generalizing.
I suggest you try the electrical engineering or the physics curriculum to cure you of that notion.
Just to name two.
I do agree however that what you say is correct for liberal arts and humanities.
The rot has not yet metastasized to the entire body.
Posted by: Tim P at August 14, 2014 8:20 AM
I share Tim's observation, but I do know a couple of Liberal (Arts) PHd's and concur. Completely indoctrinated.
Posted by: StephenB at August 14, 2014 9:42 AM
Tim P, The degrees you named plus Chem, Med,Fluid dynamics, Mechanical Eng., all the hard sciences are not screwing around with classes where opinions count as correct answers. Put Math in there too.
How many are taking those courses these days; hell many HS students avoid math, opting for Dex Ed and diddling. Many cannot read well enough to comprehend the textbooks.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 14, 2014 9:48 AM
Is anyone here seriously claiming that graduates in hard sciences are less affected by the gravitational forces of universal education?
With a very few notable exceptions like Edward Teller, the Manhattan project was populated by socialists and communist. Very intelligent people are more likely, not less likely, to support socialism. War itself is and must be entirely a socialist effort, and the Manhattan project is an example of that.
Posted by: james wilson at August 14, 2014 11:47 AM
James Wilson,
Excellent points. I would add that, hard sciences or not, the overwhelming majority of "college graduates" are soft academics and "Studies" majors.
Add to that the fact that they were all indoctrinated with Socialism virtually in the womb, and bombarded with leftie propaganda starting with nursery school - all of which decidedly predisposes somebody to be ignorant of reality.
Posted by: Rob De Witt at August 14, 2014 1:50 PM