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UK Revolts Against "Pampered Student Emperors"
While stories of micro-aggression and "safe spaces" abound in America, it appears the growth so-called "little emperors" throughout the world's universities is on the rise. As Harry Mount rages in the following Telegraph op-ed, the babies of the late 90s – mollycoddled by their parents, spoon-fed by their teachers, indulged by society – have now reached university and "It's time to say No to our pampered student emperors."
The little emperors have grown up. The babies of the late 90s – mollycoddled by their parents, spoon-fed by their teachers, indulged by society – have now reached university. Some of the brighter ones are now at Oxford, demanding that the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oriel should be torn down, because of his imperialist, racist views.
We shouldn’t be so surprised. If you’ve had a lifetime of people saying “yes” to you, of never being told off, you remain frozen in a permanent state of supersensitivity. I wasn’t offended by the Rhodes statue when I was at Oxford 20 years ago. But, even if I had been, I wouldn’t have thought my wounded feelings should be cured by tearing apart the delicate fabric of a beautiful university.
Universities are reaping the whirlwind of two decades of child-centred education. That whirlwind has imported imbecilic trigger warnings – when academics have to warn students that western European literature, from the Iliad on, is full of sex and violence. It has also brought the pernicious idea of “no-platforming” – when students refuse to give a stage to anyone who doesn’t fit with their narrow view of the world.
We shouldn’t blame the student emperors for all this. Their warped supersensitivity is the fault of the generation above – the teachers and parents who have so indulged them. I first noticed the disaster of child-centred education six years ago. Near my childhood home in north London, there is a late-Victorian school. According to the noticeboard outside, it didn’t have a headmaster. Instead, Mr MJ Chappel was called the “lead learner”.
The implication was clear. Mr Chappel wasn’t placed in authority above the children but was ranked alongside them. Children have as much to teach the teachers as the teachers have to teach them – an idiocy that’s difficult to attack because it sounds so charming; and because people like me sound so evil when we disagree.
That idiocy is now endemic through the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. I resigned from a provincial university lecturing job recently, when the disease struck my department. My colleague said it was my fault if the less clever, less hard-working undergraduates did worse in exams than their brighter, harder-working contemporaries. I was told not to penalise undergraduates for bad grammar or spelling mistakes. And I had to dumb down the exams.
The last straw was when I was told to cut down on facts in lectures. “You’re here to teach them how to think, not what to think,” the head of department told me. The tragedy was that the undergraduates weren’t little emperors. They were longing to learn facts, spelling and correct grammar but they had had precious little exposure to these things at school.
And so they sailed on serenely into the world of work, blissfully unaware that employers would throw their applications straight in the bin because of their bad English. I saw the final punishment for child-centred education a decade ago, when I worked on the Comment desk of the Telegraph. One of my jobs was to keep an eye on the interns.
A charming bunch they were, too. What was astonishing, though, was how some of them took to having their grammar corrected. Because they’d never been told off about bad grammar at school or university, they logically assumed it didn’t matter; that I was some dreary old pedant, enforcing a code that died out some time in the Middle Ages.
I didn’t mind. It was no skin off my nose. But they should have minded – it was only the interns who either knew their grammar, or were chastened and informed by correction, who ended up getting jobs on the paper. Why should they have thought any differently? Throughout their education, they had been repeatedly encouraged to think their wounded feelings must trump the teacher’s, or employer’s, right to instruct.
The same applies to the row over Rhodes’s statue. The authorities at the university have, so far, continued to pamper the student emperors. Every time the authorities are accused of racism, they bend over backwards to soothe the offended egos of the little, tinpot dictators – rather than telling them that they, the teachers, are there to tell the students what to do; and not the other way round.
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Hell YES!!! It's about damn time someone speaks up and tells the truth about the babied generation who wants us to change their mental diapers forevermore.
Yeah, yeah, and when I was a kid, the there was the strap, I used to walk 15 minutes (through snow) to get to school, had to wear "overshoes" boots....seems every generation says how easy the kids have it today...
Back in the good old days, when someone acted like this, someone would eventually tell them to stop being such a whiny little faggot. It usually worked.
what a beautiful article.
I hope the term "Molly coddle" can jump the Atlantic.
Any BA degree can be replaced by a 20 book reading list, and be had minus the snniveling, insinuating bogusly superior attitude.Liberal Arts faculties should be razed to the ground and replaced with Polytechs. The now unemployed/unemployable Arts Profs could be hired for minimum wages to wheel barrow the bricks. Then they could really learn about "philisophizing with a hammer" . Any dissention on their part would be smartly rebuffed with the back of the calloused had of the Journeyman tradesman they work under.
Does anyone know the chick in the photo on the main page? Is she into 'The Lifestyle' or is the tape just for dramatic effect?
No. It is not the millennials. It is the baby boomers. Theya re the ones who have destroyed everything and they are the ones who want all of our money for WAR. and there is no money left over for anyone else. a bunch of college kids on social media aint shit compared to 6 trillion spent on war for oil. try to get things in perspective next time.
.. says the generation who voted for 'Hope and Change' and the 'Lead Learner' of the USA - Barak Insane O'Cuntforbrains
Rhodes scholar grants supporting cultural marxism and prozionism....is mentioned in this article?
Paging Charles Sevoie
RIPS
Cecil Rhodes = Pilgrim Society, the Bildeberg and Illuminati are just punks compared to the Pilgrims.
No to the pampered monarchy too while you're at it.
The joke is on them, but they don't even read the news.
2013 Google which is a large employer said they mostly look to hire people who have
degrees from state colleges. They already figured out this cancer in the Ivy Skeevy League.
Note to Kenyan Man
If you don't like Rhodes don't take a Rhodes scholarship.
Don't go to college in racist England.
Go to college in South Africa.
in other words
fuck off
As opposed to what War for oil bush? Come one dude the economy collapsed before obama even got in.
Can't blame Bush for Syria, Lybia, Yemen or Ukraine. But I agree that its the Neocons that are the problem. That includes Hillary, Obama, and of course Bush and most everyone else. Not sure you can pin it on Baby Boomers or Millenials. There are just too many stupid people who vote for the establshment whether they realize what there vote means, or not.
Honest money officially ended over 44 years ago. Everything else is just a symptom of the fiat disease. When the cycle ends, there will be no more money for mollycoddling, affirmative action, lifelong gov. jobs for imbecilic teachers, etc.
Don't forget Obama drone strikes in Pakistan, what about Afgananistan.
O' has so many wars going on it is hard to keep track of them.
But, what the fuck, Yes We Can.
^wants his student loan forgiven.
Some nig protester in South Africa.
Smart thing the brits did walking away from there, First world to prehistoric in just 10 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12066100/Purging-Ceci...
There was a poorly written piece at HuffPost by a black women, mid 20's?, that recently figured out that Jesus wasn't White...earth shattering news for her...that White Jesus had been oppressing her all these years...
I hope she stops with just the "White Jesus" lie; if she keeps digging, I'm not sure she can handle any more "truth".
Sam's Club has a new CEO:
It's a Women; no big deal.
It's a Black Women; no big deal.
It's a Black Women that believes there are too many White People in management: Oh, Fuck.
Hey lady, that's not the problem with Sams Clubs stagnant/declining sales.
If the upper management is a bunch of Old White-Man Country Clubbers sucking all of the money into their pockets while fucking the employees and using the welfare system as a benefits package, then go ahead and bust the fuck out of it...but if not...
Proof is in the pudding; 2 years should be suffcient to see if she engineered a "turn around" or "wrecked" the company...either way, she leaves with millions for sure..
Thanks for reminding me to pick up a chicken at Costco tonite.
I would love to hear her thoughts on what the right number of whites that should be in Management is. How many Blacks? Asians? And how white does a person have to be to be white is it 100% 75% 25%... or is it just based completely on the way she perceives their skin color and changes on a daily basis depending on how she "feels" that day? Lord help us. We know our Gov't won't.
Google her name...she doesn't look all that "Black"...and after the NAACP fiasco of a white women painting herself black, someone better take a little makeup remover to the Sams CEO just to be sure...
We have have one of those at Xerox ,stock has been falling ever since she took over.
I predict she will probably be promoted to WalMart CEO. Here's why;
http://www.centrictv.com/news-views/race-culture/articles/2015/12/17/sam...
She is EXACTLY the kind of puppet that the NYC Marxists want. They will need to gain a majority share of the company, as they did at MCD. Follow MCD's past to see WMT's future.
FireBrander, That there "White Jesus" is a lie that haunts a lot of white people.
Damn CogDis.
Edit: so where did all the white "chosen ones" "jews" come from?
Damn CogDis
"Religious Documents" tell Jews that they are "special".....DNA, "Gods Lego Blocks" say something different...
"In a study of Israeli and Palestinian Muslim Arabs, more than 70% of the Jewish men and 82% of the Arab men whose DNA was studied, had inherited their Y chromosomes from the same paternal ancestors, who lived in the region within the last few thousand years. "Our recent study of high-resolution microsatellite haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_of_Jewish_origins
FireBrander,
Interesting stuff, a lot to wade through...
check this out
New DNA Science Research Confirms...
http://www.texemarrs.com/042013/jews_not_descendants_of_abraham.htm
And who is she to make that determination?
She didn't "make that determination"...Satan did!
We all know Jesus was white...God is white and Mary was white, so how could Jesus be brown?
The work of Satin; no other explanation!
Next they’ll try to tell us Santa isn't White! For God's sake, his picture is right here on this Coke bottle and he's as white as white can be!
Heresy!
Anti racist racists like actor Samuel L Jackson. Stupid whites keep watching his movies. Where he usually plays his standard character - angry black man aka anti racist racist.
The only thing he ever did worth a shit was Jules in Pulp Fiction, one of only two watchable movies by Tarantino. The rest sucked noodles.
If that didn't work, someone would kick their ass. Lots of these kids could use a good ass kicking. Either they will get taught a hard lesson in school, or in life. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
Experience will show numbers matter, violence matters and sooner or latter a screeming child will get a toy.
As far as the rest this is what you get when you program for robots.
You want to hear screaming, entitled children? Mention ending social security.
edit: for the junkers out there I'm over 40, paid in all my life and I understand I'll NEVER recover a dime of it. Fall for a ponzi, end up a chump.
Idiot. I PAID into that fund, forcefully, for 40 years. If it were savings in any other firm i could withdraw the lump sum and be done.
If you believe it's a savings account, and not a big pile-o-money that congress swipes and replaces with IOU's then you have some education ahead of you. Its a pay as you go system. WE ARE BEING RIPPED OFF. LEGALY. There is nothing there to pay you out of, and there never will be. The money you (and I!) paid in was paid out to the current SS recipients, plus some added spending/wars/waste. Just because you were conned, doesn't make it even close to moral forcing the next generation to pay you back.
I realized all this a long time ago, but keep advocating for your payout at the cost of the current earning class. I mean why have morals now, eh?
It's a competitive world out there. I'm glad the kids are stupid, entitled and refuse to work hard and better themselves. It just makes life that much easier for the rest of us.
They'll find out how they've fucked themselves. Nobody will want to hire them, other than as waiters and coffee makers. The student loans will be a life long albatross.
Ignorant Idiot Swamp..news flash...SS is NOT a PENSION FUND...it is INSURANCE against poverty in old age.
My dad has stopped driving; is he "owed" a "monthly payout" of 70 years worth of car insurance payments because he has "retired" from driving?
Social Security was never intended to be a PENSION FUND, to provide casino income for geezers...it was to INSURE against Gma' and Gpa' living under bridges and dying in the streets because they were incapable of earning a living, and for WHATEVER REASON, had no savings or family to care for them.
SS has become a pension fund, even paying out to billionaires, because a BUNCH OF WHINY, BABY, BOOMERS, have DEMANDED IT!
Kapish?
Hell, it doesn't even qualify as insurance, as there is nothing in reserve. The whole thing is hand to mouth.
It's fun being GenX, watching the baby boomers bitch about millennials and vice versa when both of them are exactly the same entitled little shits with "ME ME ME I'm so god damned special!" agendas. Both of your generations can go right to hell while I sit here in my prime earning years, paying for social security I'll never see, taxed up the wazoo for public education I refuse to send my kids to, and haven't seen my income increase in a decade while inflation, insurance, and taxes eat up most of what I make. The rest is spent on non-bullshit food going up at 20% a year.
This shit show can't collapse soon enough for me. The old fuckers will die off and finally get out of the damn way, the young fuckers will learn how to work, starve, or turn violent and be put down like dogs. There is a reckoning coming, and its going to be painful - like the god damned truth of nature. There is no avoiding this future, only coming to peace with it. The sooner we get on with it and take that bitter pill, the better. I have no hope for me or my children, but for my children's children.
From my experience, it's already started. Stand your ground laws are a perfect example of the ongoing collapse.
And the push to disarm as many people as possible. The panic is real if they are desperate enough to do it via executive order. 2016 is going to be a hell of a year.
2016 is an election year, Obama won't pull a stunt like that; it would hand even more power to the R's AND put Trump in the White; something not even the R establishment wants...
Obama's "instructions" will be to coast along, play a lot of golf and do whatever he can to help Hillary.
Its the perfect time to pull that stunt. Lame duck does something retarded, Ds and Rs campaign on fixing the shitstorm. Legislation along the lines of, oh, H.R. 4269 for example. Besides, you make it sound like we actually have a meaningful choice in presidents.
exi1, the original "intent" was insurance, today it's a Ponzi because everyone has this "I am owed" mentality.
Let families, communities, and churches provide the insurance. It is not the gov't job to decide who needs insurance. I am sure you are against the ACA so why be for SS.
Return care to the family.
If you know that you will have to be cared for by your children you will take better care of your parents and likely teach your children more valuable lessons so that they will take care of you.
Before the govt took over ensuring that the elderly didn't die on the streets and under bridges there were not many people dieing on the streets and under bridges. Who took care of them then.
Take care of your own. And when you can you help take care of others.
I would rather help someone than send my money into a Ponzi scheme.
Never trust politicians c large amounts of money.
I recommend that you sharpen yer pitchfork and spear some Congress-Critters with it!
Me, Me, Me.
I paid TOO, I was told in my 20s that it would be empty too.
Shit, I was born in the 90s and we bullied the fuck out of these losers in highschool. 15 years of millennials are getting bundled with these faggots
"Back in the good old days..." everything was better. a rant that is by now some millennia old
if you really want to go back in memory lane, here in Europe I remember that a lot of the 80's and 90's was spent arguing about the damage done to academia by all the "dumbing down" that was done because the generation that graduated around 1968, the famous "revolutionary generation"
the same generation that produced our hippies, our ideological terrorists of many stripes, and so on. to pick an example, Joshka Fisher of Germany is a good example
born 1948, revolutionary, radical leftist, street warrior hitting on policemen, sympathizer of terrorists... as long as they are of the Left, and so on
then later he became politician, then even foreign minister of the federal republic, and now one of the most fervent promoter of EU federalization, and damn him for that, too
in his defense, he told once Rumsfeld he was not convinced about Iraq having weapons of mass distruction, but that's small consolation to me
for those who believe in those generational cycles, I think that if those theories are true, you have to allow for a non-synch between the english-speaking world and the eurozone of roughly 10-15 years
anyway: for this eurozone generation of 1968, a lot of dumbing down of academia happened. from France to Germany to Italy, those students requested to get good votes just for being enrolled, and went into fits of rage at every request they did not get immediately. later, they gave their outmost in order to dumb down the whole national school systems, a damage that took long time to repair
famously, they scared the heck out of governments. once the French prez seriously thought he was facing a revolution. imho he was hyperventilating, that generation wasn't really revolutionary in the organizational sense, only in the chaos-inducing, break some windows and shout a lot sense. a revolution needs a bit more. here, I might show some bias, I admit
here in Europe I remember that a lot of the 80's and 90's was spent arguing about the damage done to academia by all the "dumbing down"
Great comment reminding us the anglosphere is often late to the party.
But sorry to be cynical, the end result of all that arguing was what exactly? Any reversal of the "dumbing down"?
I can't really judge if we were the latecomers or the the other way round. but in the US the '68 gen was hippie, wasn't it? some reversal, yes
in Germany's case, resulting in years where some 100'000 fresh-from-university kids per year were emigrating to the US because their academic titles were so well regarded
cynicism has it's home, here in ZH, doesn't it? otherwise it would be just a damn boring place
I was wanting you to explain a little more about how the education system was repaired after all the dumbing down (which you said took a long time).
We need tales of hope to balance all the cynicism.
Apparently you are its victim too. First you want a (factual) explanation then jump non sequitur to demanding 'hope'.
Fuck off. I wondered if the guy had a hopeful tale to tell (and if you could read between the lines you'd know I suspect that hope to be illusory).
It has nothing to do with that. This was all the result of a Soviet indoctrination program that was first pushed in Western Germany to try and force the fall of Western Europe to the Soviets.
It's like you fuckers want to ignore the conditions that this history happened in.
Marxism uses the cultural devide between generations to exploit the weak minded youths that have no real world experience to understand tha thtey are betraying their parents and heritage. It's weaponized generational divides, that is all it is.
believe it or not, there is a lot I agree with in your first sentence. and yes, a lot of that was planned... in Moscow
Exactly. Bernie Sanders' campaign should make that abundantly clear to everyone. The Marxists hope to use the Millenials to bury the Boomers and, ultimately, the white race. The kids have been conditioned and shouldn't complain too much when the slow & expensive hospice 'killing field' is replaced with a more efficient one, where their parents and grand parents will be sent to die.
I posted a video the other day of a kgb defector who talked about that exact strategy, among other things. This was filmed in 84 (defected in 1970). He claimed that they were working to dilute education and create a generation of leftist useful idiots who would fight free market capitalism and push for safety nets and 'social justice.' The dude literally used the same terms. His claim was that they had already corrupted the now baby boomer generation and that it was irreversible, even if you were to offer them irrefutable evidence opposing their beliefs.
Really interesting watch knowing how things have gone for 30 years since then. I can link it here if there's interest. Trying to avoid spamming the same link all over like some of the users here.
Breadbags under the boots bitchez!
pods
Been there, done that, cept had no boots, just the old time canvas shoes.
people these days think we are just shittin em, but it happened and can happen again.
Green an' yellow rubber laceups, man. Those were the days.
Good show, Jusman. "Wal, I recollect that we had to get up at three in the morning and walk through blizzards for four hours every day (even summer) to get to school. If we were lucky we got a buiscut smeared with pig fat to eat every day. When we arrived home at eight p.m. we still had to work in the fields all night clearing snow and harvesting crops. These young'ens have no respect."
The rest of you are stupid fuckwits! You were every bit as ignorant, aggressive, wrong-headed as this generation. Difference was not in the quality of young person; the difference was that nobody listened to you. Don't blame the students; that's what young people do, make fools of themselves. That has been going on for over 2,500 thousand years. That's why their behavior is called sophomoric. For the hard-of-thinking, "sophomore" is from the Greek, meaning "wise fool". Think about it! There's already been a name for this behavior for hundreds of years.
Don't blame the students! That's what students do. Instead, blame the whores of the "education" racket. Blame the vultures of the "educational loan" racket. Blame the whores of the media for making a big deal of this and getting your panties in a bunch over it. Blame monopoly and crony capitlism for destroying hope in America. Blame the whores in Washington. Blame the whore of banking. Blame the whores of entertainment. After you get done with all that blaming, if you have any energy left go blame some stupid, ignorant, pampered students, some fools in schools, some wise fools.
Instead of doing that, you all merely sit in front of your computer screens with your thumbs up your asses complaining about youth. Not me! What I wouldn't give to be sixty years younger and a wise fool again. Youthful foolishness can be cured. The ignorance of age is terminal.
God damn it, people, read some John Taylor Gatto and realize that this extended childhood is a deliberate creation of compulsory public schooling and stop reacting to its gross consequences.
Short read that sums it up: https://hybridrogue1.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/compulsory-schooling-indoc...
You wanna direct your anger, direct it at the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Gates foundations who designed and proliferate this assault on common people and common sense.
People don't believe you. If they would do some research they would find out that the methodology of it all was worked out in some small town schools in Maine nearly 60 years ago and was fully impemented and we are now "reaping" it's intended "rewards"
When I was told this as I was growing up by someone who was there and experienced it I though they were full of shit.
I've spend a lot of time recalling conversations with the old people I grew up around, sady the shit was true.
That is how Marxism works though. By exploiting the inexperienced and weaker youth minds to fight against the older established adults.
I can't figure out why it don't take on me. I do think you are right as it has been my guess is that my dad was an older man when I was growing up and all his friends that I grew up around were all old to, 60+ at the time in the 70's.
Marxism like PC and other crap is just another way for the elites to be in control of the masses.
Communism? LOL! What a joke. It was the banksters running feudalism/serfdom and wrapping in in a fancy wrapper.
It was serfdom where they could more easily murder the serfs.
Right. Russian serfdom was abolished in the 1860's. US slavery was abolished, through force, at the same time(replaced with the IRS). Communism, 1917, was sponsored by the same banksters who had started the FED just few years before, debt slavery with different labels. Only the nuclear bomb has slowed down the banksters' thirst for power and control. Now, they're reduced to inventing 'terrorists' to provoke the West to attack non-nuclear states, while they also want another Vietnam-style proxy war with Russia.
Education is a mess, I was a TA back in 03-06 and I had professors telling me to grade to a B average, and no one gets below a C-. When the group of TA's failed half the class the Prof went back and regraded everything...it was disgusting. I complained to the Dean and was threatened that I would lose my position. I went along for a while and then dumped it.
Everything this dude says is true, spelling is abhorrent, sentence structure is awful, you can barely read what these twats write. These kids are a huge waste of time and it's basically the prior generation's fault.
Racist
I was an "adult student" circa 2000...ran rings around these kids on the BASICS! Teams, teams, teams, it's all about teams...what a nightmare...being led by a 19 year old that "knows everything" but really doesn't "know' shit...I sat back ONCE and let the kids lead...almost ruined my 4.0 average...no more after that, fuck them, my grade is on the line here and I'm not going to sit back and "follow" you to a C average.
Knocked heads with this girl in one class, she was in charge of putting together the final paper for our "team"....I knew she was an idiot...I wrote a backup copy of the final paper...she presented hers to the group...chicken shits wouldn't tell her it was a DISASTER...I presented mine, everyone jumped on board, SHE THREW A FIT..one guy said to her "But his is WAY BETTER"...she lost it...didn't complain about the A+ it received though.
I took a Stat Class...all the tests had extra credit...scored 100 to 110% on every test...they posted everyone's grades on a spreadsheet in the hallway back in those days...out of a ~100 people, there were maybe 10 A's, the rest was mostly B's and C's, and way too many D's and F's for such a basic course and EXTRA CREDIT on every test...plus, the tests were nearly identical to the homework assignments...obviously they didn't even try...and expected what to happen on the exam?...and expected to pass the course?...seriously?
Out of a 100 people, only 30 were capable/ready for that class. Sure explains all of these kids with tons of debt and no jobs…they should have skipped the debt and just went with no jobs.
They were grading this way when I was in high school, over 30 years ago. I once complained about being on the all A honor roll. Where was the recognition for actually Ace-ing the work? The imbecilic teacher, a graduate of the UNC system, was not amused.
Firebrander, aren't you the imbecile who repeatedly writes "women" when he means "woman"?
I don't think you should criticize others, when obviously you are mediocre to stupid at best.
Teams are all about grafting the ability of one useful student onto the GPA of everyone else and thus making it appear that they have learned something.
I was a major victim of this particular outrage throughout primary schooling. The "teacher" would stick me with the worst inbred, degenerate, imbecile and expect me to carry them through the academic system. I would occasionally be threatened with various punishments, or recieving whatever low grade as the failure they attached me to did. I never capitulated and made the situation as uncomfortable for the "teacher" as possible, every time. One of many such reasons that I hated schooling.
Yep. Way back in the 3rd grade(1970's), I was paired with a black 3rd grade flunky. No kidding! I still remember his name. At that point, I was too young to understand I was being used. I should check the state's prison records for him, 'cause I know he ain't in the WH.
+100
Yeah - Teams aka getting literate and hard working people to get the work done for illiterates and affirmative action folks.
This is common in coprorations and govt jobs. The non AA employees do most of the work and will get fired if they do not do all of their work plus all of Shiniqua's work.
Years ago - I had something like you went through. My teammates quit the class after about the first 3 classes so I did the projects, simulations and others thing by myself.
I call it the Jethro-ization of education. Four years of college gets you almost up to a sixth grade education, circa 1970.
"These kids are a huge waste of time"
These kids are our fellow citizens. Lets work to turn and salvage them.
complete bo??ocks
he should say what he really means : whip out and get them to work to pay for the serial indulgence (debt) of their parents
I don't know about the rest of it (I probably agree with the article in general), but Cecil Rhodes was an awful motherfucker and his statue should be torn down.
Yeh, all those awful motherfucking white people...
Just look at South Africa and Jamaca after they walked away.
Never been to SA but I have been to Jamaca, sad.
If the article is true, then the "state" seems to be breeding a whole generation of western liberal parasites of the kind that Ayn Rand projected in Atlas Shrugged.
Hard work, delayed gratification and purpose seem to have been intentionally left out of the curriculum and left to the "lower classes" and very top to carry on.
Don't get me wrong. I am all in favor of letting the Machiavellian power structure fade away. However, I have this feeling that murdering people to consolidate power will not go away. It will simply morph from being for "greedy personal power" to a guise(lie) of being "for the common good". Violence and murder are acts of the incompetent and I doubt that the coming generations will be any more competent than their predecessors. They will most likely turn to violence as well. My guess is that those who planned and implemented this change are depending on it. They just want incompetent violent people instead of competent voilent people ... so that the new generation does not understand how they have been manipulated and target those who have created the situation. But, if they ever do figure it out, their wrath, against the controllers will be brutal.
Nuclear weapons ended profitable wholesale war. Now, they must profit from the welfare/prison complex, with an occasional phony war thrown in. In the 60's, people were protesting the the proxy war (Vietnam) with the USSR while Bernie Sanders was agitating blacks. Now, Sanders is agitating young people while the MSM is telling us that all those black thugs Sanders helped create should be allowed to kill and steal with impunity.
Well, the fiat money for student flows freely now. Wait until the system of debt starts to collapse in force. They will not enjoy their extreme poverty with no recourse. No, they will not violently riot. They are too lazy for that and besides, if they take a round, who is going to be there to patch them up? No combat medics in a student riot!
Hillery will forgive all student debt in exchange for thier votes.
You'll see.
She is such a nice lady. When does she bring out her skittle shitting Unicorn? I can not wait for the day.
Hillary's ads make me want to vomit.
> Create Jobs!
> Reduce the cost of education!
> Easier access to college!
> Lower health costs!
> Keep America Safe!
SAME BULLSHIT I have heard for 40 years! NO DETAILS and people eat that shit up...SAME with ALL of the REPUBLICANS!...Trump is marginally better...Bush wants to form a "Global Coalition" to destroy ISIS...Bush, yeah, you fucknuts...ISIS is the USA's PROXY ARMY in the mission to "oust" Assad...if you "destroy ISIS", how are you going to carry out the order for "regime change" in Syria? Send in US Troops...like your brother? Are you that fucking stupid?
and then tax their parents to pay back the banks who hold the notes.
when the world "economy" collapses, all these little turds will either die from starvation or lead in the face for trying to steal from others. because they are too stupid and lazy - well they are stupid because they are lazy. you get the point
next in line will be criminals responsible for the collapse, hopefully this time honest people will get every single cockroach up onto the lamp posts before they can corrupt and destroy the society again.
give me even one little itsy bitsy teeny wheeny bit of evidence that the world economy might collapse. your faith in such a thing? a faith shared with you by many others?
or just tell me when the last revolution in your country happened, which is usually a splendid tell-tale for when the next one might happen
oh, sorry. I did not notice that you are a BitCoin fan. then it's ok, it might be the usual BitCoin promoter's posture to postulate a world where the global economy collapses and people are so lucky to have bought BitCoins. particularly - snigger, snigger - when the Internets are down
a hint, pal: your BitCoin is a fiat currency, too. have a bit of gold on the side, take this little advice from your Uncle Ghordius
"evidence that the world economy might collapse"
History.
History shows the "world economy" routinely collapses...History, doesn't tell, and I don't know, when, but I do know it will.
2008/09 was a close one...reverted by...seriously?...more of what caused 2008/09...DEBT!...GLOBAL DEBT THAT IS BIGGER THAN EVER....with the ADDED BEAT OF WAR DRUMS...that's some pretty strong evidence that "the world economy might collapse" again and the Central Bankers may not be able to stop it...like they did last time.
Hedge Accordingly.
so you claim history... and provide the "near-miss" of 2008/09. and that's it. no, no, it's isn't faith, it's history/s
yes i said when and not if, because this debt bubble will explode sooner or later, either soft reset via "economy collapse/depression" or hard reset via world war.
and actually i can tell you exactly when the last revolution happened in my country - 17.11.1989 - which ended the socialist system ruled by communist party
as for your uninformed opinion on bitcoin,
i own both cryptocurrencies and precious metals - i diversify like every smart person does.
i'm not going to tell you why, you should do your own research into new technologies (if i see a strong movement in some technological area, of course i'll look into it, just like bitcoin few years ago, and now there's starting to be a very strong movement in fintech towards bitcoin and a lot of smart people getting involved and a lot of startups building new tech on bitcoins blockchain)
Sadly you are incorrect sir. I hate to say this but if history is any guide these twats will be given positions of authority or be part of mob crowds demanding "equality" as resources are over consumed because they'll just keep taking shit and never produce anything. Useful idiots will over run us sadly. And when it's all gone and they have taken all our stuff and strung up our most talented and wise for being "horders" or evil capitalists, they will finally canabalize themselves.
Venezuela here we come.
Well, the fiat money for student flows freely now. Wait until the system of debt starts to collapse in force. They will not enjoy their extreme poverty with no recourse. No, they will not violently riot. They are too lazy for that and besides, if they take a round, who is going to be there to patch them up? No combat medics in a student riot!
Draft them ALL, run them through basic military training, stuff them into uniforms, hang packs on their backs, stick rifles in their hands, drop them in front of ISIL and tell them the ship back home is on the other side, we will pick up and return home the victorious survivors.
Problem solved.
Singapore has compulsory military service. One of my wife's cousins has two sons, both of whom were pampered, although they most definitely couldn't be considered molly-coddled. The older one has just gone through his military service and the change is pretty amazing. The younger one goes in a year or so, and I would look to see the same kind of change in him.
I don't think sticking them in front of ISIS/ISIL is really necessary. When one of them whines to Sarge and Sarge screams at them until his eyes are popping out and the veins in his neck are ready to burst, that's message enough.
The following countries have Compulsory Military Service:
Ukraine, Venezuela, Kuwait, North Korea, Brazil, Jordan, South Korea, Bolivia, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Taiwan, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Algeria, Angola, Chile, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, Mexico, Moldova, Russia, Seychelles, Singapore, Syria, Thailand and Turkey
I agree with this but one minor correction. Stick them through 1960's USMC training, because there is a hell of a lot of attitude kinks with them that need to be ironed out.
Imagine how quickly an invading army would conquer a nation run by these thin-skinned brats.
+1. That is exactly the point my friend. They have softened this generation up, so that they will WILLINGLY give up their rights as individuals, to be herded like sheep for the slaughter...I weep for the future.
The idiotscwill either join ISIS or commit suicide.
The pussies couldn't take it.
full metal jacket intro monologuehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lft6EQh-Y
The U.K. Daily mirror ran pretty much this same story yesterday about the young black man from South Afrika ( pictured above) who it attending Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship no doubt, demanding that the statue of Rhodes be removed from the grounds at Oxford.
The comments to the article were literally 100 to 1 in favor of shipping the young South Afrikan asshole back to his 3rd world mud pit.
It's funny how the erasure of all history that's found to be "insensitive, ugh!" will end with the erosion of the very foundations of civilization, leading to an anchorless, rudderless 'society', not civilized and not social, but plagued with new and modern ways to be rude and insensitive. 1789 France comes to mind as well as South Africa's present 'government'. Apartheid government was MUCH more civilized and inclusive than the current SA iteration.
No doubt, even the SA Zulu King states that the country was better under white rule. The fucking Kimg of the Zulu's said this, incredible.
http://newobserveronline.com/zulu-king-blacks-destroying-south-africa/
Check out some of the picture of South Africa in the article, streets in the cities just overflowing with garbage..... Same story for Rhodesia and the Starving Zimbabwe and Zambia it has become. Under the whites Rhodesia was the "bread-basket" of Africa, now the people starve under black rule.
Silly Rabbit ....... MISSION ACCOMPLIMISHED (G W Bush)
Isn't ISIL's favorite thing to blow up statues and monuments of institutions they dont agree with too?
It sounds like we've found the next Barack Obama...
Did he ship the bust of Winston Churchill back too?
Pull their fucking money and watch the cunts crumble.
Next...
Cecil Rhodes was a 'saint'
Cecil Rhodes & De Beers: Genocide Diamonds....http://espressostalinist.com/genocide/cecil-rhodes-and-de-beers-genocide...
Taught cohorts of students from '98-'11 and each year they were progressively: worse at spelling and forming complete sentences/paragraphs, more entitled, less able to listen or focus, and more hostile at having to work versus be entertained.
that I was some dreary old pedant, enforcing a code that died out some time in the Middle Ages.
Shit, I resemble that remark.
Let them act like children, just don't let them breed ... is neutering them an option?
Enter Caitlyn Jenner, stage right. Unfortunately, that goal is white genocide.
I'm triggered by trigger warnings.
They are all special coddled spolied snowflakes, but I don't blame them for losing faith in society and institutions, and respesct for the people in them. I have.
Not to worry, the babies will get thier education when the system collapses into war and chaos.
Amazing how a "normal kid" type from the 70's or 80's but born along with these babies could be a either a star or outcast with the new masses...or they might just be this generation's savior. They work hard, don't display excessive entitlement (some is ok, I guess) and see the world as theirs for the taking rather than their inheritance.
On my 26 mile commute to work I see the pampered kids sitting in their mom's SUV witing for the school bus. Don't know why an 8 to 12 year old can't walk down the length of a driveway (50 to 300 feet) and stand by the road and wait for the bus. The the bus driver will hold up traffic with their flashing stop lights to wait for the little prince/princess to walk down the aisle of the bus and choose their seat and then sit safely down.
When I was in school the bus driver loved to slam brakes and step on the gas to make ups learch and fall in the aisle. Made us fucking tough!
I'm with you. When I was in grade school, I had to go up and down the hill on my own and only got a ride to the bus when it was really bad outside. When I got dropped off after school, I had to see if my house's garage door was open. If so, walk home. If closed, go to the neighbor's house because my folks weren't home.
Nowadays, if a kid is waiting alone, another parent will probably call the police and CPS will get involved.
Actually, in our hood, parents are starting to get concerned about their mollycoddling because kids are getting to college and completely *freaking out*. They don't know how to cook or do laundry and need someone standing over them to hold their hands and help on "homework". As a parent you really have to strike a balance and ignore as best you can all the fear mongering in the media. My 12-yr-old daughter has become a bit of a leader in her class. Her school has been specifically instructed to let her go on her own to do whatever it is she has to do at the closing bell. She gets herself to school in the morning, and decides how to manage her time after school... (e.g., I don't think she's tried to take the city buses anywhere yet on her own, but she does feel pretty comfortable on the BART system; her school is close enough to walk). Over time this has turned to other parents saying... hey, my daughter wants more independence. Could your daughter walk mine home? Or could your daughter get my kid to soccer practice? Or whatever. Other kids in her class want some independence and ability to think for themselves. And many of them are starting to question the helicoptering and keeping them sheltered and disabled, paralyzing them with fear. That's a good trend, I think. I don't worry about CPS getting involved. In my troubled city, there are real problems. Getting money out of me is going to involve a well-fought and structured court battle in which there is no guarantee the state will profit. In fact, they might even lose. Much easier pickings elsewhere. (I know enough about our "family court system" to realize that if there is no money to be easily gleaned, they won't bother.) But I do have some safety concerns. I'm not immune to the media reportings of kidnappings etc. And I reserve the right to spy on her whereabouts during the day (via FindMyPhone which I sometimes check) and read her email/WhatsApp (though I never do this). She takes her responsibilities seriously knowing that she will be rewarded with more and more freedom. Less and less surveillance. Maybe this is not for all kids (I would not trust my son's judgment at present) but it could be we're swinging back around a little. We can hope.
Do you even realize who pathetic your post sounds?
I have family in Eastern Europe and the life there is like it was here before "stupid" overcame the nation.
Kids go home or got to their friends after school. No parent is dragging their "precious snowflake" everywhere.
Kids are are kids.
Probably because mom hadn't finished nursing the 8 to 12 year old at home and had to do it in the SUV waiting for the bus
In Grade School and Junior High, I had to cross a very wide low-lying field. If it rained hard, it would be a foot deep of muck ( I had knee-high boots). In the Spring, there would be an ice crust on it...the challenge was making it across without falling through...I was a big kid...I rarely made it...imagine kids having to "put up" with that today...parents would be protesting for a bridge to be built.
SUV stops at the bus stop? It must be rough. Here, the SUV's are lined at the schools, daily, morning and eve. They block up the roads. The snowflakes don't ride the bus, haven't in 20 years.
i hear they want to tear down the statue of Bill Cosby at Temple, imagine the nerve
Are there Pudding Scholars?
If the poor little import doesn't like Cecil Rhodes, maybe he should gtfo.
There are lots of other places he can go to be offended.
Feel the BERN, little snowflake. Epiphany ahead in 10 years when your bill comes due. Wait, an epiphany correction requires critical thought and rigorous education. Most of you are fucked. Facebook and twitter update time now sweeties.
Looks like another example of divide and conquer. Let's pit generation against generation this time.
What's next from the playbook?
A. Racism
B. Sexism
C. Religious bigotry
D. Celebrity self destruction
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And the media propaganda rolls on down the road.
The central issue is that the people of the West are slaves. Their masters use them as debt and tax mules and siphon all of their labors and productive endeavors via regulatory captured scams like healthcare and defense. The leaders of the West risk nuclear war (all of our lives) through their insatiable thirst for global conflict.
This was done by the parents to their kids. No grand conspiracy needed just one generation of self-entitled assholes raising the next generation of self-entitled assholes with special features going exponential
Fiat debt slavery is a grand conspiracy. The assholes, of which you speak, are the slaves, ten cent millionaires.
Some asshole writes a newspaper editorial and it's "UK Revolts"? ZH is going full clickbait.
And why shouldn't the statue of Cecil Rhodes be removed? I'm all for that.
I want the Statue of Liberty removed because it's current hypocrisy is too painful to consider. And every Memorial in DC should be bulldozed..... No, I think I want every nation and religion to remove any visible traces of history. Oh, and ban ALL books, too. And I want everyone's skin stained to a bland beige.
Revisionists of any stripe make me sick. Fuck OFF.
Atomic, If I missed the /sarc tag then I remove my aggression. It was just a misunderstanding on my part. Must be the Confederate Battle Flag staring at me. And the AK.
History is written by the winner of the war...
Ian Smith was dead fucking right. These people were better off under Britain.
Damn straight.
I mostly agree with the author's view but I think too much of the blame is being placed on the students. Why insult them, call them names and belittle them? Based on the author's own opinion, this will not solve the problem but will merely re-entrench the students in their feeling of entitlement and the right to be protected from criticism.
The blame lies with us, dear Horatio, not in the stars...or the "pampered emporers". We have created this environment and permitted our teachers and politicians to act this way. If you want to criticize, point the finger solidly at the teachers, parents, administrators and politicians.
Feel free to explain to the children. Point out the errors that we have made in training them to be victims with no responsability, but tell them it was OUR fault.
Is there a solution for this generation? Probably not. They are screwed and no one will lift a finger to help them, but we should not lift a finger to blame with either unless that finger is pointed at ourselves.
You are mistaken if you believe we parents stop "Lifting" when they are out of the house. My kids' grammar is intact, they are smart but they also suffer from the belief that they are entitled to any advantge they can imagine. I am responsible to a degree but at what point do they take responsibility for their lives and stop blaming mommy and daddy? 20, 30, 40????
Taking personal responsibility for our words and actions without excuse is a trait I find in short supply among Americans.
Be a man. Take your shots, learn from your failures and move on. Geez it is not hard but it is work and that is what the new generation does not seem to embrace
The "Pampered Student Emperors" who have been educated for jobs that arent't there, prepared to found enterprises in an economy that won't support it, lured by meme of "investing in yourself" into a life of debt peonage, looking forward to living in their parents' basements because they can't afford a home - what do you expect from them?
They have at least an opportunity as students to look at and study this predicament together, draw their own conclusions and speak out about it. We may not like what we hear, they may be blind to their own self serving justifications, yet we must sympathize with their plight and listen closely to what they say and give them our best constructive feedback and insights. Not belittle and demonize them.
Starting with this. The students know the economy is messed up but their economics professors are of little help to them. ZH readers have vital insights and information to offer for helping them understand what they are looking at as the economic system into which they were born slouches toward its waiting singularity.
I can't really agree "the blame lies with us". This isn't a failure of character or a breakdown of culture happening in a vacuum. Unless you're one of the people Obama is hanging out at the golf courses with you didn't really create this world or control how it's degrading.
And why is the defense of Cecil Rhodes important to so many ZH readers? Who is he important to? I grew up on Kipling and his ilk. Even though an American I took pride in the British Empire and the world maps with British Pink everywhere. Somehow I never connected that with the lessons of our own Revolution with its roots in rebellion against the tyranny of the British East India Company.
You lost me with "have been educated for jobs", what bullshit... they are UNeducated!
Just wait for the war, the little flowers will experience a Macro-aggression and no matter where they are they will never find their safe space.
And they're unarmed and bringing in more and more Muslims who are not exactly a Socially Liberal group of people. These little babies will conform to their new Muslim master demands or suffer very nasty public Macroaggression punishments.
Idiocracy is ahead of schedule.
This is its own brand of idiocracy. In this case, the dumb are actually getting educated and yet remain stupid.
But if the Dumb are being educated by the Stupid, is that education worth anything? My 9 year old step-son is my window into the inept world of public education. Nobody teaches in school anymore, they hand out pre-printed corporate worksheets. No critical thinking, no problem solving, just fill out this form. I am no longer welcome in the office because I told the principal he was a fucking tool after he suspended the Autistic kid who was being beat up by 3 other kids.
The government wants dumb citizens, it needs them. If you can think for yourself, you don't need them. So they stopped teaching that. Plain and simple. Your govt wants you to be a stupid brain dead follower. Unquestioning and pliable.