Education Exaggeration
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” ― Victor Hugo
Interesting Note: Ever notice on book blurbs the book promises to “Intellectually satisfy” or that the book is “Intellectually substantial.” What is really means to say is: The author has gone to an Ivy League school and the book is for those with an expensive education. Talk about a pompous *superior status* label.
The push for many centuries of “higher education” has had the effect of making us lose confidence in our independent ability to create or become anything meaningful without a college degree.
College education began to throw stones at religion, philosophy, and among the broken remains, two things rose to take their place: science and technology.
Cause and Effect:
As technology created more convenience, more comfort, and more leisure time, it created less tension, less personal challenges to strive for. When we are in a ‘tension-less’ state, our true courage and confidence is sucked dry.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and fan of nature in 1700’s said; “The study of the sciences is much more apt to soften and effeminate men’s courage than to strengthen and animate it.” Far better, Rousseau said, to live like the ancient Spartans, who fought and died for their country and banned all trade and artistic production.
Now, look, I’m not suggesting we ban anything and absolutely am a fan of art, education, EVERYTHING within a balance. But I do find some truth to Rousseau’s observation.
Just as some men are born to fight, to be in the military, to be cops, to be boxers, MMA fighters – some men are born to work in the educational field.
However – I think what has shifted is that those men (and women) who dedicate their lives and rely on physical courage, are more personally fulfilled. They put their courage on the line daily. The educators, well, not so much. Though their calling is worthy, they seem to be envious of those who are strong and that envy rears its ugly head by taking an air of superiority and painting cops, military, as demons.
Suddenly, our strong who protect us are seen as villains and those in education are seen as liberators.
Yet, who is the first person a professor calls when someone is parked in his designated parking spot? Security!
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell
I spent many years as an Amazon Vine Reviewer. I read many, many books and there has been a huge change coming out of the publishing world. Authors (who are professors) are writing fiction books that demonize the military, cops, etc. They are hypocritical though, because without the military, without cops, we would not be free to pursue our individual dreams. I’ve read ‘non-fiction’ books written by professors (overwhelming, professors are liberal) spreading fear about climate change, food “insecurity” etc, but they do nothing to alleviate it (see Compassion Distraction), but promise they (the social scientists the climate scientists) will ‘save us’ from all the disasters looming.
All in all, a majority of education has become the new religion and tries to make people feel they are worthless and meaningless if they don’t have a college education.
"The most ridiculous, most despicable of all con artists are those pompous, condescending, so-called 'intellectuals' who purport to use the intellect to 'prove' the worthlessness of human intelligence -- and thereby, of the intellect. They don't even seem to realize all they're doing is admitting their own self-negation in the most pathetic way possible, in public, to all but the most gullible." -- Rick Gaber
When I started to explore why so many people seemed so unhappy in America, good fortune led me to the writing of Albert Hoyt Hobbs. I was able to buy used copies of his books very cheap. If you can’t find his books ,try the library.
Albert Hoyt Hobbs was a bold professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1937 – 1980.
Independents and Conservatives are extremely under-represented in the field of Behavioral Sciences and that is the way it has always been.
Liberals have not only 'taken over' behavioral sciences (and college campuses in general), they have created a hostile environment (liberals, being intolerable? What!! Absurd!!) for those who think logically and believe in self honor/value, independence, and personal determination and responsibility.
I can't even remember what led me to his books...perhaps because I've been a student of the behavioral sciences and when I woke from my deep political slumber to realize all the crappy choices I made in life were based on Liberal Values, I started searching for Conservatives in behavioral sciences which was like trying to find a bacon burger at a Vegan Festival - luckily, I discovered Man is Moral Choice (published in 1979)...and then also The Vision and the Constant Star (published in 1956) and The Claims of Sociology: A critique of textbooks (published in 1951).
Talk. About. Taking. Off. Blinders.
Wow.
Conservative professors were extremely rare (and still are) in the field of sociology, psychology, and his controversial views made him an outcast among his colleagues.
Early in his career at Penn, Mr. Hobbs examined hundreds of sociological textbooks and discovered they contained no science; true science involves studies where one can verify one's findings, people can’t be subject to clinical study because people are people. There are too many variables, they lie, they try to please the researcher, and any ‘study’ involving people can be manipulated. The textbooks he examined were light on facts and heavy with opinions. The problem was that they shared "a one-sided, liberal point of view," he wrote.
Among other things, they didn't like capitalism, they promoted forms of socialism, they criticized education that stressed traditional, classic values, and critical of individual enterprise.
For Mr. Hobbs, who described himself as a philosophical conservative, individuals came first, and so did individual morality. "Man has a capacity for moral behavior and this capacity must be allowed to function. . . . People are responsible for their moral behavior," he said in a 1980 interview.
Mr. Hobbs observation explains why we, as a society, are so unhappy. Media and current culture tell kids that they can be nothing unless they go to college, then in college they teach kids that, basically, individuality does not matter, and you aren’t responsible for determining your path in life, so basically, your life is meaningless.
