jonmoen
Universities
I started college two and half years ago, as a stubborn conservative, white suburbanite, whatever you want to call it. I wish I was writing right now, about how I’ve gathered support and evidence for capitalism, and the conservative stances on the social issues in this country. Sadly, I was wrong. For the purposes of keeping this paper under one million words, I will keep my arguments specific to one topic that has been, in particular, very troublesome for me: The system of universities and colleges in America. Just to show that my argument goes deeper than what will be covered, here is a brief list of what’s wrong. “Liberal” education and liberal arts, affirmative action, foreign exchange professors and assistants, the price of education, the risk/reward factor of investing in an education, the GPA , the ACT, and any standardized test. The first three listed, are the ones with which I am most concerned; so here is why.
Liberal education is unnecessary and obviously biased. Anyone who doesn’t want to major in English, or philosophy, or any other main liberal art major has to spend the first two years of college partaking in the “lib ed” required courses. For me, it was a plethora of manipulated history, abstract and nonsensical modern novels, and professors who obviously have tried more drugs than I can name off-hand. If I want to major in math, or business, why do I care about how the minorities have been mistreated up until the 1960’s and debatably still today, in this country. We went over that in 8th grade. Also, I learned how to read shitty books in high school, and how to fake some deeper meaning in the word. The articles and novels about native Americans and Hispanics is just overkill, I would care more if I heard less about it. Instead of all of these “prep” courses that prepare you for nothing, It would be far more effective for me to have been studying harder classes related to my major, or just classes that I am actually interested in. But I was required, instead, to waste two years of my life; yes that’s right, REQUIRED!…thanks college.
Affirmative action is wrong. I don’t even know why I have to write about this. America was founded on equal opportunity, not on equal lives. The Soviet Union tried the whole “equal” lives thing, it’s called communism. The recent trend of democrats seems to be: “hey! white men make more money or have better jobs than this minority, and that minority”. If anyone wants to know why, It’s because white men have been in America longer, have worked for America longer, and there’s more them. Now, instead of communism we have this excuse called affirmative action. I’ve gathered this from the pro-affirmative action side. Women don’t make as much money as men, and neither do Asians, Mexicans, Hispanics, and Antarcticans (joke). And to fix this problem, we decided to just make it so that anyone of these minorities that come within 1 full GPA point or 10 full ACT points within a white male, will get accepted before the white male. I have met multiple women who got into business school with ACT scores at least 6 points worse than mine, and GPA’s worse than mine. I understand that maybe some people didn’t get lucky and go to as good as a school as I did, but I’m sorry that doesn’t make them more qualified. If you have a terrible education up to college, chances are you’re not gonna magically become a genius in college. So we just continue to screw over those that are fortunate and smart, and successful to please those admirably empathetic liberal politicians. NOT
Lastly, we have the foreign exchange teachers. This will be shorter because it’s easier to see what’s wrong. I would like to believe that the purpose of all universities is to give the best possible education to its students. Foreign teachers don’t teach well because of something I call a language barrier. I’m not saying foreign teachers are stupid, in fact most of them seem too smart for their own good. But they don’t understand how to explain what they know in their native language, into something we can fully comprehend in English. They don’t understand half the questions you ask them, and thus I don’t learn as much. I learn more from the textbooks than I do from these professors. So all these universities are being so progressive by having a bunch of foreign people be apart of the system, but all they are doing is hindering everyone’s ability to learn… thanks again, I’m glad.
Now for my conclusion, I suppose one could gather from my paper, that I’m not a fan of minorities…that’s not the case. I am just not a fan of minorities getting favoritism over those that in a lot of cases are more qualified to help be a positive member of society. But from what I’ve experienced so far, I don’t deserve anything I’ve worked for because my ancestors were ass holes, and they’ve made more money than minorities… good call American leaders of education…and I bid you a “Thanks for nothing.”
