Do universities and colleges adequately prepare our youth to succeed in todays job market?
Colleges and universities exist to indoctrinate kids, not to educate. Even fifteen years ago, I was appalled by how much of my education was indoctrination into Progressivism, and I didn’t even know the term then. All I knew was that most of what I learned in college was taught by Michael Moore, and very little was what I would actually use on the job. Most of it was politics, and very little was what or how to teach Middle School students. Maybe I noticed it more because I went to college in my middle thirties, instead of my late teens, but I was disgusted by it. Having just read Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, I now understand why that is. For the son of a Presbyterian minister, Woodrow Wilson did not get Christianity. He did not believe that all humans sin. He believed that sin was a problem that could be ended by progressively refining government, and that the first step was educating all children to have a uniform point of view. To that end, he wanted a uniform