Universities are failing the progression of thought, period. Few are actually encouraging people to share ideas freely; many are "open-minded" as long as your ideas are leftist and not too offensive.
I'm a high school senior and many colleges I've looked at and applied to have stricter regulations on speech than high schools and super-limiting workplaces.
Papers are being assigned with minimum length requirements, experiments involving drugs are being squashed, and political correctness is often being held higher than freedom, honesty, and the exchange of ideas.
So what I mean by all this is that, yes, to look at this progression towards bullshit and think "Maybe I'll learn to run a business there" is nonsense. I think it's good that entrepreneurs are spending less and less time with "higher" education. Get the fuck out and start actually building things.
I attended the university with "the worst free-speech policies in America", and we had an active Objectivist Society and a Republican Club that spent its time trolling the rest of the (very left-wing) campus. They spoke quite freely.
The issues tend more towards the administration wanting to prevent a riot and passing speech restrictions than towards "Free Gaza" hipster-activists actually managing to really suppress speech through heckling.
If you think that a minimum-length requirement on a paper is an odious suppression of your rights, I advise you to:
A) Right a truly concise paper and pass it in with a note justifying its brevity on grounds of said concision. Warning: only the best writers can really do this.
B) "Get the fuck out and start actually building things." You might make a good sum of money that way, but you won't ever learn or think much. Just another thoughtless capitalist.
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Universities are failing the progression of thought, period. Few are actually encouraging people to share ideas freely; many are "open-minded" as long as your ideas are leftist and not too offensive.
I'm a high school senior and many colleges I've looked at and applied to have stricter regulations on speech than high schools and super-limiting workplaces.
Papers are being assigned with minimum length requirements, experiments involving drugs are being squashed, and political correctness is often being held higher than freedom, honesty, and the exchange of ideas.
So what I mean by all this is that, yes, to look at this progression towards bullshit and think "Maybe I'll learn to run a business there" is nonsense. I think it's good that entrepreneurs are spending less and less time with "higher" education. Get the fuck out and start actually building things.
I attended the university with "the worst free-speech policies in America", and we had an active Objectivist Society and a Republican Club that spent its time trolling the rest of the (very left-wing) campus. They spoke quite freely.
The issues tend more towards the administration wanting to prevent a riot and passing speech restrictions than towards "Free Gaza" hipster-activists actually managing to really suppress speech through heckling.
If you think that a minimum-length requirement on a paper is an odious suppression of your rights, I advise you to:
A) Right a truly concise paper and pass it in with a note justifying its brevity on grounds of said concision. Warning: only the best writers can really do this.
B) "Get the fuck out and start actually building things." You might make a good sum of money that way, but you won't ever learn or think much. Just another thoughtless capitalist.