Victor Davis Hanson: "I'm EXPOSING the whole damn thing..."
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- Victor Davis Hanson on Higher Education's Radical Shift and Its Consequences
In this eye-opening video, historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson delves into the profound changes sweeping through American higher education. Hanson critiques the dominance of hard-left ideologies in universities, highlighting how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies are reshaping academic landscapes and undermining traditional meritocracy.
Hanson argues that college presidents now fear crossing left-wing faculty and students, leading to leadership choices based on ideological conformity rather than merit. He points out that universities, like Columbia, have faced backlash due to a perceived lack of moral compass, especially in handling incidents of anti-Semitism on campus. Hanson emphasizes the financial pressures elite institutions face as alumni and donors grow increasingly disenchanted with the ideological direction of their alma maters.
Exploring broader societal implications, Hanson compares the situation in academia to the military, discussing how both are suffering from similar issues of ideological rigidity and lowered standards. He warns that this shift could have long-term detrimental effects on America's competitiveness and social cohesion.
The discussion also touches on the international dimension, as Hanson examines the influx of foreign students from illiberal countries and the consequences of prioritizing full-paying students over merit-based admissions. He highlights the disconnect between traditional academic standards and the current educational environment, leading to a workforce perceived as ill-prepared by many employers.
đ Watch now to understand Victor Davis Hanson's perspective on the ideological transformation of American higher education, its impact on academic standards, and the potential fallout for the future of American society.
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It used to be said that the function of education is supposed to be to teach HOW to think, not WHAT to think. What we have these days is not education, it's indoctrination.
Couldn't be more accurte except to add this is not 'new', it just has reached new pinnacles of evil.
@@graphguy Don't think it's reached its peak yet...just when you think the leftist commies have succeeded, they double down.
And has been for several decades now. Completely destroying critical thinking. Is SO wrong and unfair to students although they are blissfully unaware and have NO IDEA what they have missed. Itâs all they know. A disregard for all who disagree with their outrageous views.
@@graphguyTrue, but it's fairly newly EXTREME in the US.
@@commonsense6967 Depends on definitions:
New?
Extreme?
The LEFT/evil always uses the boil the frog in the pot tactic.
This has been brewing for decades.
Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell are the 2 Americans that should be listened to IF you want America to survive.
We need Americans like this to lead the people, put them back on the path of sanity.
I could not agree more. These are the type of men we need to give audience to. Only total respect for these men.
I totally agree. And, if I must be labeled, I'm slightly to the Left but I still love listening to these 2 guys.
Is it worth considering adding Larry Elder to your list?
my dear friend if you havenât noticed America is long gone.
They've become the Poison-Ivy League.
Universities and colleges were made by Christians, so were libraries
Iâm attending one and Iâm fighting this. Itâs not all lost.
And corrupted by Marxist, AntiChrist demonic people destroying the minds of children who have rejected God .
That's a good one!
@@Jan-fx2nyIncorrect! And most Ivy League schools arenât Christian schools. But nice try though with gaslighting smh
College ruined my son. Smart as all get out, came home from college, and after a semester of Biblical Teachings, decided he "learned" that the Bible is a lie. đą He has never been the same person he was before going to college. đ
I am so sorry about your son.
College is supposed to be the best experience of your life. Your son is a strong independent thinker, but tell him never give up on God. I pray he uses this experience to continue to search for his truth. May he flourish and grow in wisdom and strength.
Keep praying đđ»!!! Nothing is more powerful than the prayers of a parent. Especially a mother. Nothing is impossible for our Father. Jesus is my Lord and Savior âïž
Keep praying and fasting for your son. I face the same situation with my son who went to UCDavis. While I donât claim in any way that I was a perfect mother, I know that I worked hard to give my best to my children-and I know they had it better than I did growing up. So I leave my grown children in the Hands of my Savior and trust Him with them. It is a deeply hurtful thing to rear them with good values and sacrifice for their education, to only result in their rejection of Biblical values. But God has seen this play out many times in many generations over time. I pray and love them; I fast and work on becoming the person God wants me to be. Thanks for this opportunity to share. I need to remind myself of this often.
@@peacemakerservant2137
Thank You!
Brave man, Victor Davis Hanson! Thank you for speaking up!
If the rest of us would speak up like Victor does our country would probably be a whole different place not crazy like it is nowadays. đșđžđŠ Trump 2024đșđžđŠ
No more Harvard or Yale grads on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Poison Ivy League.
That eliminates Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Kagan, Brown, Sotomyer. I'll take that deal.
nor President like Barry!
@@tangobear3536Those judges graduated a while back ago this stuff started after they were gone at least most of this woke and DEI crap nice try but youâre wrong.
@@noemibarrios4056 Remember whe everyone smoked in class and when someone fell asleep, the prof nailed them in the head with a piece of chalk?
Without Christ WE have no moral compass. Thatâs why this mess is happening.
Jesus is the only way. Amen. He saves.
Without following the Ten Commandments and fellowshipping with God these floundering people are not of sound minds! They know not what to do!!!
The Great Spaghetti Monster would beg to differ.
@@ChrisPBacon-vk7sjbut he is deaf and dumb
Ah yes, the christian comment bots.
There are over 8 million jobs in the trades that pay good money. College is a waste of time for millions of kids.
Agree 100%
Go into plumbing. There will always be a need for plumbers no matter how bad the economy is.
â@@doug8525 Damn right we are having one heck of a time finding plumbers and try finding a young electrian.
My father graduated from Yale in â58.
He said the left takeover of Yale was already in place there then. He did not encourage me to go there. 8th in my class out of 188 with a 4.25 gpa and a year and a half of college already completed I could have easily got in.
I got into Stanford, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy, but chose to go to SMU in Dallas.
Its still a conservative school.
God bless Texasđ€
If I had known about Hillsdale, I would have gone there.
You had a very wise father. Congratulations to him for having a very wise son.
As a native of N. Texas, I would not say that SMU is conservative at all now. I'm in my 50's and it was once a conservative school but always a very snobbish student body. As a Texas Tech alum, we are a very conservative school in the sate of Texas. Just my two cents.
Wake up it's all bullshit for hells sake
@@martinmerrill5366 What's all bullshit?
Pronouns in online threads are rarely useful or informative.
But Hillsdale is like the Mark Of Cain on a resume. Silicon Valley hates America and discriminates vs. military vets and whites. They are in love with B-1s from Asia. BTW a B-1 from China suicided by window jump at Facebook and it was NOT in the "news". The lone engineer who protested work conditions was fired immediately. Facebook=Fascist.
If President Trump wins this fall, he should hire VDH as Secretary of Education!!
Really, we need to get rid of the Department of Education at the Federal level. They are the ones pushing this Critical Race Theory and LGBT agenda in our schools. They got to go.
If President Trump wins this fall, he should get rid of the Department of Education and let each state deal with this.
@@lesheinen6116 Sure glad I read your reply before I spoke up. Pres. Carter (Democrat, started the FEDERAL dept. of educ. which gave the "government" the power to mold our children, as we have found out. States and local governments used to do this, and it reflected the beliefs of the people, not our enemies who wish to destroy us. One of the first things I noticed was, they didn't bother teaching "big words" or "spelling or grammar" because that interfered with "creativity". Twice, school books were dumbed down, and they kept destroying everything until now, if you want to get a skewed idea of sex or gender, just go to the elementary school library (if they'll let you in).
Betsy DeVos was Trump's best cabinet choice the first time around.
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g since 1977, US education went from number 1 to 13th. Let's just call this experiment what it was: a complete failure. It's time for the Federal Department of Education to go away.
Idiocracy isn't just a movie, it's reality these days.
It was an overestimation about intelligence.
And we are just living through the first minutes of the movie...
In 20/20 hindsight, the movie "idiocrasy" was a failure since it greatly underestimated the levels of socio-political insanity commonplace today.
@@konagirl805 Sadly true.
It's all rather bizarre that young people are rabidly pushing for the destruction of their own society and culture that provided the greatest "social justice" the world has ever seen.
We've seen many examples in history of people rebelling out of envy and hardship but making their lot worse with the revolution. It's understandable why the poor workers of Russia ended up creating th Soviet Union, conditions under the Czar were terrible for most.
But today, you have the most privileged actively destroying the society that gave them that privilege. I'm certain, they are not so "virtuous", that they want to personally give up their place at University and work on the bean fields for the rest of their lives, for the community.
Either they are stupider than a pile of sheep dung or they think they will be the ones living in the Kremlin.
This guy is a national treasure, may God bless him.
Shut up. There's no God.
This results in a worthless degree and an incompetent class of graduates with degrees not worth the paper they are written on.
For sure, if you were an entrepreneur in education, there's a huge opportunity here to replace the establishment educational institutions provided the financing could be acquired. I think education from top to bottom is going to be very different in 10-20 years.
Example: AOC
And heavily in debt.
These are the ones who would trade the countryâs freedom in return for student loan forgiveness.
K-12 government schools prepare the students for complete indoctrination into Democrat party communism.
Our country is sick, ill.
And spreading all its crazyideologies like an epidemic to the Western World. This crap reached Europe...
What gave it away
It's been eaten like a cancer, from the inside out. Thing is the people voted for it over a decade ago. It's in stage 4 now.
Terminal unless God helps out, but we are not deserving His help because so many have fallen away.
We are all worthy. Where do you get your belief system from, dear?
This man has the most straightforward, honest analytical mind to be so seemingly soft spoken, yet his words carry the weight of 500 pound bombs. I love this guy.
We need University presidents with a backbone that aren't afraid to do what's right
The University Donor class are fully behind LGBT stuff. Thus destroying America. When the students showed they still had sense of right & wrong the Donors are threatening to withdraw funding & want the students expelled.
And "say", what's right "! đź â€
I can no longer say that something depends on the context. That phrase has been sullied by "Dr" Gay and her peers. It just sounds dirty now.
Not holding my breath.
@@williamsweeney7954 me either partner, it looks like it's expect the worst hope for the best
Not only is our country sick we have a cancer and it has metastasized...
It has metastasized and the only hopes are action - chemotherapy, radical treatments, and prayer.
Based on what we just witnessed, I would say without a doubt that the Ivy Leagues are dead.
The only way to revive Ivy League Colleges is to replace the entire faculty's but of course they have protected themselves with a thing they call 'tenure' which exists nowhere else!
Ivy League is nothing more than a bottom line motivated business model.
The most successful people I have hired have been high school droputs. Universities these days are producing entitled and lazy people, not all of course , but a substantial number. A person with a grade ten and a work ethic, has no other choice but to buckle down and do the job. Opportunities are limited for these people, what they get they tend to be serious about. As an employer my main interest is hiring a person to perform their tasks, without ego, or drama. Something these kids produce by the bucket load.
I was a HS dropout. I was bored because everything they taught was fluff. I did end up with 3 college degrees before universities went off the rails lol
As a 83 year old, 48 year business/corporate guy, I agree 100%. A college degree would NEVER get me to hire you. Number one is...will you show up 15 minutes early and stay late if necessary? Will you read the order and get it right? Will you always try to learn and advance, or will you take long breaks and do squat work!? I am beyond thankful I made it out when I did. Now, I wouldn't even try.
@@Ken77114 You are not someone I would work for. Boomers expect you to be a slave to them. If going to the gym to stay in shape on my lunch break, so that I do not get sick and have to call in sick all the time because I am unhealthy is an issue, I wouldn't work for you. IF you're paying me overtime to stay, and I have no other obligations I would. However, the younger gens are tired of the low slave wages and poor work-life balance. Our lives are not working for you 24-7. If that is the expectation, I would start my own business lol
This isn't boomer land anymore. Life isn't meant to work yourself to an early grave. You don't own us.
@@MarieLamour-cv1jc You proved his point. Bravo.
@@MarieLamour-cv1jc You're about as sharp as a marble.
Lowering the standards in these colleges so people can graduate is cancerous. Destroying this country from lower learning.
Same as lowering the standards to get in too, it's doing the same thing.
Uneducated people are easier to control. Thatâs what these Marxists are trying to do in this country. Instead of educating our children, they want to indoctrinate them into their ideologies.
Mr. Hanson, thank you. For everything. For being clearheaded. For being true, solid and honest. Thank you. A Student
17 year old kids that could not even get a $500 Gas Card from Exxon can get $300K from the Swamp to go to College. What could possibly go wrong ?
Pull the plug on this sh!t now!!
Pull the plug on the money and it would implode fairly quickly. No more tuition grants, no more college aid of any kind, no more government university grants of any kind, period. No more subsidies, no more research grants, nothing. The University system would collapse under its own bloated weight. Of course, Biden does the exact opposite, bailing out student debt left and right with our money.
Victor Davis Hanson..a voice of REASON in a UNREASONABLE world
My brothers and i all have bachelor's and master's degrees. One of my brothers was valedictorian, so he got a full scholarship to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga within 45-50 miles from our home. My other brother and i had work scholarships at Chattanooga State Technical Community College. Later, we transferred to UTC. I had an assistanceship for part of my master's degree classes. We all worked part-time during college.
We grew upon a farm. We knew that one of my grandfathers was illiterate. My mom was the first person in her family to graduate high school and she helped my dad get his GED. He had dropped out to take care of his family and his father with cancer.
Long story short, we knew it was a privilege for us to go to college. We and our families worked hard for it. The state schools near us were good enough.
Before my past car accident injuries caused me to not be able to work, i taught every grade from 7th - 12th and college. I could see a decline in parenting, student's behavior, entitlement, etc. The number of kids with involved parents and hardworking kids declined. We are paying the price for these mistakes.
Similar story here in the UK. Ever since Tony Blair said "Education, education, education" and made it his goal that 50% of young people should to go to university or college, standards (both among students, final graduates and teaching staff) have nosedived. The value of degrees in the workplace has also gone into freefall. The universities now face a crisis of intellectual bankruptcy, and the proliferation of stupid ideas (that can't be challenged because of the censorship and cancel culture).
Tony Blair is also a major WEF member
The standatds in schools have also and especially since the rise of specoal needs students and EBD students have been integrated into classes. There was a time when teachers taught to the middle and pushed the top end but now lesson time is taken up with the bottom end and with behaviour management despite LSA support.
The future is bleak. What happens when these college graduates enter the workforce??
"A" university.
Blair was the beginning of UKâs freefall. Makes me so sad to see what has happened to your great country. Iâm glad I got to visit decades ago when your country was mostly Brits.
Mr Hanson your the man with common sense FJB and the Democrat Party
I'm being blocked!
Here's a thought. Get rid of Parties altogether - vote for the best people that support what's best for the nation - not greedy corporations, Party branding, or selfish constituents. Think about it! ps. Punctuation is a thing, lol.
America knew how to treat the far left in the fifties so that they couldnât get a foothold. Then it got distracted and stupidâŠâŠ
â@@nightrunner1456yep me too
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Exactly right about the over-entitled brats who are unemployable.
Iâm unemployed because the border has been open for 55+years! Where every job is filled by the Spanish people from South America. Corruption for over 55 years! Those who made the money then are making the laws today. On purpose. đĄ
Boeing! DEI hiring.. doors on aircraft blowing off! I don't fly anymore!
Boeing" troubles began years before DEI. It began when business men began to make engineering decisions. Its a problem that crosses a lot of disciplines. Are you looking for solutions of justification of your beliefs ?
â@@jimsilvey5432Either way, who needs external terrorists when faced with that scenario?
@@jimsilvey5432 He has a point. Boeing being dodgy will only get worse with woke agenda.
Thankfully, I am willing and able to drive to all the locations Iâm interested in for travel. Boeing has convinced me to wait. And I will.
Itâs not Boeing that should scare you. Itâs the airlineâs DEI quotas for pilots that should worry you.
"The Swamp". It reaches further than you realize......... And it is the single most dangerous thing facing America today.
Way deeper then I thought. đ€Šââïž
And the biggest creature in the swamp is....Obama who pulls JB strings
Employers want employees who won't cause trouble and will work hard and be capable. They don't want coddled troublemakers who graduated from prestigious colleges simply because they checked the right diversity equity and inclusion boxes on their applications. Who would have imagined that ability still matters?
This is the Left's new religion, and they will force it down our throats, either by the law or the, soon to be implemented, social credit scores! They will have the power to control your money with the, soon to be implemented, digital money; one click and your money is deactivated or disappears!!! The prophesies in the Bible are coming true right in front of our eyes!!!!
Corporations like stupid people
Hmm.... If employers don't want coddled troublemakers infiltrating the US workforce, then we really should consider who does want that. Because what is happening is not just happenstance. It was very much envisioned and implemented. It's a clear agenda to break down the societal foundation of the nation.
True, but there are still a whole lot of employers who demand those limp pieces of paper.
â@@astridgalactic9336 True, but most of those are government employers and organizations that need/want to project a "diverse" workforce and can afford to carry all of the affirmative action and DEI dead weight.
Hanson you have your feet on the ground, thank you sir!
Every University should be responsible for minimum of 50% of Student Loans moving forward. Without that, government should give grants only, thereâs no accountability presently for these higher education institutionsâŠ
How about performance-based tuition. If the graduate is unable to find a career in their degreed profession, the university refunds tuition on a year for year basis.
Unfortunately the university paradigm no longer functions in support of the society that created it. It is obsolete.
Universities were not created by society in the first place. They were designed by the powers that should not be to indoctrinate minions with their false narratives and then hold positions of authority over society within all professional fields. Society can and should create a much better means of advanced education. The universities don't advance us, they hold us back.
Liberal Imperialism. Almost lost my opportunity as a conservative Christian to earn a Master's degree because of a "liberal full tilt anti-GOD" professor. Being an older student, my superb GPA standing, a professional career already established, and my military veteran status the college I attended "heard" my case and my documented evidence of my being academically targeted, I was able to find relief from that professor and ultimately earn my graduate degree. I was smart enough to know the difference between an "academic education" (that I was paying for) and liberalistic indoctrination that fails under intelligent argument and HONEST critical analysis. Surprisingly, the professor in question had very limited knowledge of the actual field of study being pursued in our coursework. I am deeply grateful for the experience and having an academic advisor who had the courage to correct the injustice on my behalf.
I'm a 65 yo retiree...had a great career...I earned a B.S. and an M.Ed...I truly felt like I was educated, not indoctrinated...the 5th column was there even in my day...I grew up and became of age in the '60s and '70s...govt has always had "left and right"...but when it came down to actual governing, they always seemed to form coalitions that made govt functional...no, it's strictly partisan politics today...if there's a civilization that ever fails, look to govt...the everyday joe/jane just wants to get on with their lives...but no, some govt obsessed with power thinks they know better than we do how to get on with our lives...govts destroy civilizations, not the citizens...govt will not stop until they destroy mankind, rendering us extinct...if you don't believe that, then maybe you need a history lesson.
it is a parasite
Graduated in 67â We learned about America, our history and politics. Studied communism and their objectives, you thought you decided
Neither do We the People of the United States want to subsidize it.
Victor is 100% correct. His ability to accurately describe a complex problem.
Its all over !! Sit back and enjoy the show. Its only ever gonna end one way. Cocked Locked and ready to Rock !!
What?! đ€
I think he means that he has a lot of lead in his house!
I think the only peaceful solution will be to vote on states seceding. States that share similar ideologies can form their own nation. Or at least allow states to have greater autonomy. It's the only way to avoid mayhem.
Letâs all acknowledge that the world is a corrupt place. The corrupt are so powerful, I donât know that we will ever climb out of that.
It not the top layer of corruption but those lower, willing to do anything for a slice of their master's pie that have convinced me we can never rise above that relationship prevalent throughout history.
A ladder of lead.
God is the only way
Excellent as usual. Victor says "they didn't understand the effects", but I think they did understand, they just don't care.
University degrees are worthless now.... A parent is better off advising their child to attend a trade school or join the Military to focus on learning military skills leadership etc...
It's high time we focus on rebuilding our Middle Class who can actually do real things to contribute to society and build traditional wealth and security...
Not the military, if you love your kid, don't encourage them to engage in the piracy of other counrties' assets in the guise of democracy or other self-serving lies that justify invading sovreign nations.
Shut them down we need a honest national discussion about how we got here and where are we going.
satan is running this world.... end is near..... buckle up!
Life is like physics. One reaction creates an equal or more significant reaction.
Pretty much. 40+ years of the decent rational majority refusing to gatekeep, let alone fight back, in any meaningful way is what allowed them to take over.
In leftwing politics almost every single action has precisely the opposite effect to that intended.
Exactly. Consequences are being ignored with horrific results (or maybe, planned results, depending on whose side you are on). NO ONE thinks of Consequences! You can't do just "one" thing because other things are influenced.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Nobody cared until they tried to force people to care. Now they care about the total opposite of what they wanted them to.
Iâd like to see that actual percentage of these students thatâve read a whole non-fiction book, cover to cover.
When I was 12 I read Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" cover to cover and carried around a copy of The Communist Manifesto. 60 years later I read and reread the Bible from cover to cover, every word and every 170 days, 7 chapters a day. If I had done that 60 years ago I never would have gone to college and wasted my time with a degree in pholosophy.
Victor, you are so correct as the education standards have been lowered so much as it shows in everyday life!
The intimidation for high grades by Muslims goes back to the 70s. I was attending City College in Sacramento in the late 70s. Students from Iran were intimidating teachers, demanding straight As etc. They were the sons of rich Iranians and they acted completely entitled.
I ended up in BU grad school of communications in the bad economy of 1990. All foreign students.
I have had a Iranian's trashing my Vet family online recently. The guy is a punk and hates America. Told him to go back to Iran.
Disrespect and ingratitude, wrapped in an exaggerated sense of entitlement.
Iranians are the most entitled and racist of all people.
Those Iranian kids grew up under the Shah, who was governed Iran as a Western nation until 1979.
The system is past the point where it can be fixed from within.
A few good, strong men can do it.
Trust in Jesus. He saves.
This man is a gleam of light and a fountain of humane wisdom among the insane voices that are driving this country ever deeper into darkness and destruction. Heed his words, please.
I do not understand why we have students from other countries. We desperately need new education from preschool to a Masters Degree. We must have people who can practice critical thinking. Looking forward to reading your new book. Thank you †Gina
VDH..Close all the universities down for 5 years ...Ireland
VDH nails it with clarity and simplicity, so even a middle class knucklehead like me can understand.
Claudine Gay STILL teaches at her school. Earning $900k/year. Yes, you read that right.
More details please
Her degree is totally worthless because she cheated.
@@jeffreybaier5312Leftists clearly value cheating over all else.
I read that and wasn't surprised at all.
She obviously retained her job on her good looks.
Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of truth.
Dont
Encourage
It.
You said it!
A Chinese engineering student once told me: "American students worry if they will pass. We Chinese worry, will be get an A."
A lot of foreign students are sub par
â@@delprice3007 It depends on the student, the school, the subject matter and whether English is their native language if they are studying in the U.S. Most Japanese high school graduates have seven years of a foreign language, usually English, and many of them are more literate in English than American students. Japan, China and most other Eastern countries also have no affirmative action of DEI programs so the students have to progress by their own merit not their alleged victim status.
It's the same reason why everyone is fat
And that reason is Capitalism
â@@DanielFoley75then why have things become worse as the government has grown and society moves further left?
People starve under communismâ@@DanielFoley75
lazy fks
Harrison Butker said nothing wrong.
Listen to the end of what he said near the end about the elites. Good always prevails. Thank you Mr Davis. None of us are initialed to any thing. U work for it
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." Another Hemingway quote. He knew.
I bought the technical books and went to work. I became a staff engineer/scientist at IBM with a complicated patent and had no degrees. I did attend a couple Jr colleges and the professors said "what are you doing here" so I left. The also said I could teach the class.
Yes. My approach as well. I'm shocked by many of the comments I see here. Many are hateful. I'm also shocked by how little people read! Good for you reading the books! I did the same, and never had to study for tests, and got straight 'A's'!
It is time to let universities know we are going to cut back our donations.
That's the problem, right there : "... going to cut back..." .
No drop, eliminate, cease, void, nor end.
Just ",,,cut back..."
Like having cancer and deciding to fight it "...a little bit..." .
Pathetic... â
you donate? you'd get more out of your money wiping your a** with it.
My college years were 72-6. My faculty advisor was a major Melville scholar who was also an avowed Marxist. Yet when I asked for summer reading his advice was "You're Catholic, right, so never read the King James Bible. You must or you can't understand English literature or Anglo American history." He also had no use for Marxist or feminist of any other such interpretation of the English Lit he taught. In fact he would play Devils Advocate quoting Milton Friedman at them. Now that's all gone, nothing but parrot teachers parroting the party line to their sheep like students.
Yes, they are full of crap.
Mr. Hanson always has sound advice and knowledge to so!ve Americas problemd
When community and family are destroyed and replaced with corporate think ideology we are doomed.
The only reason to send your child to a top school in the US today is if they study STEM. STEM is only lightly affected by DEI idiocy and is still rigorous and valuable.
Except itâs now STEAM, that is how the corrupt it.
@@motofunk1If the A stands for Architecture, đ.
I train university grad hires, after a long orientation. They are all told "the man that is now going to train you in the facts of the real world is hard core, no bullshit, doesn't tolerate whinners. If you survive the next 2 months you will be one out of 5 of every class we hire". Unfortunately, the last 2 years of hires, not one has survived, they all quit.
That's because they are cheating these people and not preparing them for life. Degrees are essentially worthless because they give them out to anyone.
Which industry?
@@TsugaC insurance adjuster
Honestly? I taught grad level architecture for 40 years. If all the kids you taught dropped out I suspect you're being rude and/ or very difficult to get along with. I'm very demanding of my students, but I also never had anyone drop out because of me. Most of my former students have stayed in contact with me. What on earth are you doing?
@@user-hl4jj3hb4h preparing them to be insurance adjusters. Tough job.
Victor Davis Hanson hombre.
great movie. VDH is the Hombre Indeed! Love that opening bar scene. Newman performed great dentistry with his stock of his 1873 Winchester in .44-40! 'Hey!, Hombre!' Great line!
i always second guessed my decision to forego college and go into the military. I travelled the world and saw all 50 states, finished my college one class at a time after work. My school was paid for. Im happy now with the path i chose. BTW i lost every high school friend i had by joining the military. ( 1974)
Fifty years ago my university was populated by tall, smart, and beautiful people. I visited the campus recently and found it crowded with short, dark, and bitter trolls. Itâs appalling what has happened.
Brilliant!
When you look at the uni students, they just look like a bunch of actors, activists. If you tell me they want to be doctors or lawyers, you would have me fooled.
The biggest Corporate employer on earth (the US Gov.) has said degrees no longer matter...the directors of I.T. have said they don't care where or how you gained your skills, autodidactic is fine.
BS,Our military and bureaucracy are 100% behind DEI crap
Georgia Tech is not the resort VDH seems to think. The admin is full blown woke and the problems he expresses in this video are nearly full blown at Georgia Tech. Just ask Judith Curry. And that was years ago.
I hope the ICC issues arrest warrants for many of our top American leaders. :-)
that will NEVER happen
I pray my granddaughter will not attend public schools or college. Come soon Jesus!
Great information
Our courts and Congress are getting a little too woke and subsequently disruptive. Honor and decorum...learn it or get out.
If they're raising billions of dollars why don't they give the students a free education instead of charging them
It's a business model selling unearned degrees to foreign students paying full load tuition.
Most of the elite schools made their reputations based on their graduate schools so their undergraduate product is not better than state universities. I earned a BS in Chemistry from a small state university and scored 820 GRE on the Chemistry test. That score put me well into the top 10% even though I didn't go to an elite school.
A lot of state schools were elite or very good. Others not so.
@@CatholicTraditional My point was a BS degree from an Ivy League school is no better than a good state school.
When my husband did hiring some years ago for the large company he worked for, he said the the best employees were ex-military and those who had grown up on a farm. The college graduates were book smart but sometimes lacking in other areas.
Here in Australia, anti-Semitism has emerged on university campuses as well. May I suggest that no-hopers who scraped into uni, doing no-hoper degrees and no-hoper subjects, are getting into anti-Semitic agitation, let alone other mad causes like Extinction Rebellion because they donât have a legitimate way to make their mark on society. đ
The further we as a nation get away from Jesus of Nazareth the more destructive the people will become.
You've just ripped off someone else's work without crediting them...John Anderson interviewing Hansen on his own CZcams channel. This is a short video posted on the John Anderson channel where the entire interview, almost an hour, can be viewed. Do you mention the entire video? No. You should at least give credit to the source of this clip. Is this even legal? It is at best immoral. Shame on you.
A great example of how lazy our country has become
Thank You for calling out this channel. Shame on them!
I taught architecture at the university level for 40 years, and my experience was the opposite of what you are describing. I agree that the curriculum + courses were dumb. But the kids understood how bad things were, and they wanted a decent education. I was joined in my disgust for the schools' lack of rigor by students who understood they were not getting a decent education. My colleagues were mostly bad teachers, and did no work other than showing up for classes. The curriculum at one architecture program where I taught was 'chanting magical words'. The faculty were furious because I said I would not be teaching their 'curriculum'. If anyone is to blame for the mess we have on college campuses? It's the ACSA: America Collegiate Schools of Architecture'/- and other national accrediting committees. The ball is in their court to start pulling accreditations from these bad programs.
Defund, Defund, Defund! Defund them all!
No such thing as 'islamophobia', only islamofauxbia. Phobia is irrational fear/hatred, whereas healthy dislike is both reasonable and sensible.
What a mess! But this mess is the logical, realistic result and conclusion of liberal democrat and woke ideas. It's a certainty.
The loss of the fear of God has empowered the demonic world by our own lazy souls.
Fortunately, a lot of these lesser institutions will not be able to survive. Enrollment is way down and will continue to drop. I heard one estimate that in 20 years 25% of all universities will have closed. Glad to see it too
A lot of wrinky-dink colleges have closed in the last 5 yrs.
As parents witnessing the absolute decay of the colleges we will not support our children going to such a trashy thing . We decided that we would get loans and hire the right mentors to coach and start businesses that our children would want to own or have. I can pay for our kids college or I can support them in starting their own business and starting their own business is where and only where my money will go . Colleges and the professors and the education system is a indoctrination camp that I can't support.
In British Columbia, Canada, the last Liberal government lowered the requirement to graduate high school in order to elevate the graduation numbers. All you need to graduate is 50% or better in English, thatâs it, lookout world. đ
It is " Diversity and Exclusion " God bless our Dear Jewish friend s and Family!
I am a professor and it's been happening for a long time.
The consequence is the modern bachelor's degree is practically useless. Got It.
Got a bachelor
It cuts deeper than that. Kids these days don't understand how to do math for example because their teachers (with bachelors degrees) don't either. It's like a snow ball rolling down a hill.
@@jimsilvey5432 , are you useless? Or do you rely on other skills you have learned through experience outside of academia?
Unless your studying engineering and the sciences. Not social sciences your good to go in the job market.
This is why itâs much more cost effective to turn our HSâ into colleges instead of having 16 yrs. of basic ed. This negates the need for student loan program.
Colleges & Universities are now the largest Agencies of Govt. The tsunami of tax payer money $ pouring in is staggering. When the Govt took over Student Loans $$$ - Colleges & Universities entered a modern day Gold Rush.
I have no idea what people are talking about - yelling about USGov't subsidizing student debt? They're not! And that's a big part of the problem! Due to GQP pressure the US Gov't stopped giving 'research grants' to US Universities by the mid 1970's.. After that, every school more than doubled their tuitions to make up the loss of income. That's why in 1981 Harvard GSD's tuition (per semester) went up from $4000 to $8000 and was slated to go up to $16,000 in 1982. As for the USGov't handing out 'free money' they're not! Biden developed a program that would give up to $10,000 grants to graduates struggling with debts. Many kids graduate with $150,000 or more in debt. You people have NO idea what you are talking about.
Boycott Starbucks worldwide.
I bet this crowd is on the other side.
I regularly work in places that are staffed by young adults say - twenty to mid-thirties, in roles which do not require an academic qualification - catering, hospitality, retail etc. Most people in this age group, in these jobs, have been to university. They would all be in a much better job by now if they had left school at sixteen, worked their way up AND - not taken out a student loan for the rest of the taxpayers to pay.
You and our own Dr Starkey in the UK are the two voices of reason taking the battle to the left. Keep going sir- I always find you very worth listening to.