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Australia, a clever country? Education and life chances : Comments
By Janet Taylor, published 9/4/2010Less than a third of young people gain university qualifications so it's important support is provided for non-university pathways.
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However, too many university students are wasting their time and taxpayers’ money on piddling degrees which do more harm than good for them and society.
The easy-option students are the ones who take humanities and the like: the ones who come out perpetuating dangerous, often downright false, Left dogma. Look at history – students are bound to the garbage put out by hard-Left academics. If they don’t re- produce what these uncontrolled tyrants want, they fail. This filters down to kids at school through graduate teachers, and hence we get the loony-Left opinions and interpretations – opinions and interpretations of history, not history itself – that constantly appear in public discussion, leading to the History Wars which still continue as the arrogant old warriors and fabricators battle for their fading images and reputations which, to them, are more important than the truth.
A relatively small proportion of useful occupations need to be backed by a university education. We need productive people who actually provide what society needs and wants.
Adam Smith described universities as having “…chosen to remain, for a long time, the sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world.”
Not much has changed since the 18th Century.