Conservative MP and leadership candidate Andrew Scheer wants to defund universities that don’t support freedom of speech, but why not take it a step further?
Why not take away provincial and federal money from all universities?
Let’s face it, universities have become a breeding ground for radicalized cultural Marxist thought. Most professors lean left and indoctrinate their students with their political ideologies.
Twenty-five years of data on left-leaning university professors shows this is a problem that’s been festering in all universities for decades, so it isn’t just an issue in schools that overtly shut down free speech.
Watch as I explain why I think Scheer’s plan is a bit naive and doesn’t go far enough if we truly want to correct this problem and ultimately, improve the quality of education.
How can we trust an education system that puts political correctness over truth?
We can’t, and this is why universities and degrees will become obsolete.
Your comment is very apt, Tammie. Good one!
There’s an evil presence in today’s education
Why should we consider what a troll has to say? Seriously pathetic.
Educated Canadians are laughing at how the Lumpenproletariat purport to hate “Marxism” yet don’t hesitate to suggest the exact same strategies to suppress dissent.
He had a plan to reduce the costs of post secondary education by re-opening boarded up high schools. There is no good reason why an undergraduaye degree in arts, humanities, or any number of non technical studies need to cost any more than a high school education. We pay dearly for the trappings of university prestige and all of the regiemes that provide undergradutate degrees “free” in countries that brag about it do it “no frills”. BTW Canada never live up to a UN commitment to do so. Ireland did.
A university education is nothing that would actually cost more than the price of a library card and about $50 in late fines.
Universities become money pit mortgage basket cases of buildings and aquisition of overpriced land and monstrous and ever growing bureaucracy style administrations….which provide employment to graduates of other universities….and rarely their own.
One of my professors even told my class that if he wanted to make less money, then he would have become a high school teacher.
Forty or so years ago Universities were not nearly as government funded as they are today. As funding grew so did government interference. New disciplines were debated within the Universities before they were accepted and taught, unlike today where a course on every social whim is included because the government thinks it is a good idea. Big difference between then and now in educational institutions. Government should never be involved and they are now more than ever before in History. Universities used to be about the pursuit of truth. Today nothing could be further from the truth.
http://theconversation.com/the-university-experience-then-and-now-10135
You would think that Canada is a “free country” and every Canadian citizen is free to vote their conscience, but, no. If you are economically disadvantaged, the left is going to pressure you into voting NDP or Liberal. Yeah, it’s a free country alright, but not in the mind of the Leftists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jalF9ulBw5M&t=11s
If I were hiring, I would be leery about hiring indoctrinated University students. Gov’t and Google can only hire so many of them, nobody else will want them.
I agree with you, Andrew Scheer is naive and his plan doesn’t address what Universities have truly become.
Education & critical thinking has been replaced with indoctrination; and students who struggle to function & have great difficulty in meeting the expectations of the workplace. Employers can greatly impact this sad reality if they refuse to hire graduates from the worst offenders! During interviews, it becomes apparent how the prospective employee sitting in front of you will affect your business. Take the time to ask the questions and listen to what they are saying very closely.