By
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OBrien, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer Email the author |
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on November 13, 2015 at 8:36 AM, updated November
13, 2015 at 2:23 PM
Even
if your debt is killing you, even if you can't find a job that has
even a tenuous link to your major, even if you're discovering that
the real world is requiring you to forget a hefty percentage of what
you were taught in four, five, six ... seven years of undergraduate
toil......You're
spending tens of thousands of borrowed dollars to be constantly
confirmed in the sadly mistaken notion that no snowflake is as
special as you are and that if anyone so much as implies an opinion
other than yours, the president of the university has to resign in
atonement......Only
on a modern U.S. college campus could such a laughable cause and such
outlandish effects have played out as they have over the week or so
at the University of Missouri.......Growing up is not what U.S. universities
promote these days. By taking seriously the antics of hunger
strikers, tent city dwellers and free speech suppressors (looking at
you, Yale)
they promote the kind of hair-trigger sensitivities and tantrums that
would embarrass a toddler. The
most extensively schooled among us — we cannot call them the most
highly educated, because they "know" so little that's of
value and so much that's just plain false — spend their university
years marinating in willful ignorance, unbridled entitlement and
cultural rot, striving not for authentic knowledge but for moments of
cathartic narcissism.....To Read More...
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