I didn't realize what I was capable of academically until it was pretty much too late to actually go to an *elite school." Honestly, glad I didn't. I went to a State school, met my wife in the process and still live in my College town. My college experience was excellent.
I love education, I am friends with professors, I value knowledge. Some of what I see coming out of "elite schools" is alien to me. However I also know I am not getting the full picture. I never will. That's okay.
It does seem like random controversies from Ivy league schools get way more press than they probably deserve just because the people that are entrenched in the US power structure often attended one of them.
Wise move shunning the Ivy League! Your photograph of a demon in a cap and gown brought my cousin to mind. He is an ultra-arrogant Jewish American Columbia University professor who writes pro-Kremlin, anti-Israel and anti-West articles that members of his family — who used to respect him for being a so-called “genius” — find vomit inducing.
This Ivy League shanda doesn’t have anything near the wisdom of the average coelenterate.
Witnessing the dumb and vicious little haters that Harvard and Columbia crank out, I have to believe that kids who are not the kind of “smart“ that gets them into one of those stinkholes are the lucky ones.
Thank you for your kind words! I suspect you're really going to like the next installments in my series. I think I've isolated a number of the key factors here in why/how those in academia can get so morally confused. And I'll look forward to your thoughts on them.
I attended an elite Eastern university 1964-68. I’d do it again. Like Mike Bloomberg and so many others, we attribute our successes to the undergraduate education we received there.
Maybe if I hadn't been hit in the head during my teen years I could've attended such a school. Or if I'd been born with a body to enable sports success. Or if the K-12 system recognized that a system that rewards memorization and regurgitation is not a good way to assess students' abilities, needs, and potential.
I didn't realize what I was capable of academically until it was pretty much too late to actually go to an *elite school." Honestly, glad I didn't. I went to a State school, met my wife in the process and still live in my College town. My college experience was excellent.
I love education, I am friends with professors, I value knowledge. Some of what I see coming out of "elite schools" is alien to me. However I also know I am not getting the full picture. I never will. That's okay.
It does seem like random controversies from Ivy league schools get way more press than they probably deserve just because the people that are entrenched in the US power structure often attended one of them.
Sounds great. Looking forward to this series.
Wise move shunning the Ivy League! Your photograph of a demon in a cap and gown brought my cousin to mind. He is an ultra-arrogant Jewish American Columbia University professor who writes pro-Kremlin, anti-Israel and anti-West articles that members of his family — who used to respect him for being a so-called “genius” — find vomit inducing.
This Ivy League shanda doesn’t have anything near the wisdom of the average coelenterate.
Witnessing the dumb and vicious little haters that Harvard and Columbia crank out, I have to believe that kids who are not the kind of “smart“ that gets them into one of those stinkholes are the lucky ones.
Thank you for your kind words! I suspect you're really going to like the next installments in my series. I think I've isolated a number of the key factors here in why/how those in academia can get so morally confused. And I'll look forward to your thoughts on them.
I saw myself in your description of being picked on and beaten up in grade school by little Nazi boys.
I have memory/recall issues as well.
Thank you for sharing and affirming. How do you cope with it?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in-ivy-league-college-admissions
I really like this article. I think it turns the perception of Ivy League on its side in a way that makes sense.
Thanks! I will check out.
I attended an elite Eastern university 1964-68. I’d do it again. Like Mike Bloomberg and so many others, we attribute our successes to the undergraduate education we received there.
Maybe if I hadn't been hit in the head during my teen years I could've attended such a school. Or if I'd been born with a body to enable sports success. Or if the K-12 system recognized that a system that rewards memorization and regurgitation is not a good way to assess students' abilities, needs, and potential.