One of my teachers in high school was a certain Miss McKim, imacentristmoderate. I sure wish that she had sexually molested me.

Hi LEGO,

Miss was not interested in that fat ugly kid with a face full of pimples up the back of the class. She was taken by us handsome dudes sitting down the front. Besides, you had Mrs Palmer and her five lovely daughters, what else did you need?

I've missed our little discussions, where have you been, not on another pilgrimage to Nuremburg?

You popped up on one topic and challenged me, then when I replied to you, you had fled back into cyberspace, Paul1406. But I am glad you are back because I miss reaming you out, and I keep wondering if you are bright enough to be turned away from the Dark Side?

I haven't done "a university course in Economics", LEGO, but am aware we might be on the cusp of a paradigm shift (link follows).
I don't know where you were coming from with your first sentence but, for the record, I found it offensive. And not to me. (I'm an atheist.)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/are-we-entering-a-new-political-era
In response to Hasbeen, "hard gained experience" is a key component of effectiveness in most endeavors, I would think. It's crucial in my own profession (psychology) but so also are things like having broad knowledge of available theory and practice, openness to new ideas and respect for different ideas. How much did I get from university in these respects? It's hard to parse out, but uni sure gave me a kickstart. I also studied disciplines (like philosophy, statistics, mathematics, social theory) that provided lenses through which to critique what I learned in theoretical and research psychology. There is no such thing as 'wasted' learning, imo, although there can be misapplied learning or contextual learning that we don't even recognise the importance of. No amount of "hard gained experience" at building a motor from scratch would, I suspect, produce much more than skinned knuckles and greasy jeans for me.

Hi Jayby, Universities were NEVER supposed to teach you how to think. Primary school is supposed to teach you how to think + teach the tools for further learning. Like the 3 Rs & some modern history about the Reformation, from which ALL good things flow.

My primary school taught me how to think. Then in the 1960s ruling, left wing elitists began dumbing down the curriculum both in the schools & in the teachers colleges, so that more children could be "graduating" from school illiterate & unable to think logically.

How old are you Jayby? If you are anywhere under 60 that would explain a lot.

Hi Hasbeen, So true. That is why traditionally ALL trades & professions were learned by apprenticeships, that combined part time book leaning in tertiary education institutes with part time, practical "on the job" experience.

Hi LEGO, Spot on comment.

What teenage boy "getting his rocks off" is going to complain about it? That's why so many females get away with molesting boys. It usually only gets police attention if his mother finds out, or she gets pregnant.

How would you like to begin your working career after finishing your education, with both a HECS debt & the Child Support Agency coming after you? Even when the authorities KNOW her pregnancy resulted from the statutory rape of a 14 or 15 year old boy.

BTW:- Left wing religion is actually a viral mental illness which renders it's victims incapable of reasonable, rational, logical thought processes.

So i don't hold out much hope for Paul1405 or any other leftists.

Hi Jayby.

Since you are slow on the uptake, I will try and make it clearer for you. Muslims think that their religion is beyond criticism, to the extent that if you do criticise it, you might have a bunch of the more crazy ones trying to kill you. Have you forgotten Charlie Hedbo already? And they were lefties like you that got slaughtered too? Joan Beckwith thinks that universities should be beyond criticism too. But I will hand it to Joan, at least she won't come after you with an AK 47 if you do.

I presume you are an educated socialite socialist too? Even when the Muslims kill your own, you trendies and yuppies still stick up for them. Fortunately, some lefties today are starting to think twice, especially the homosexual ones who don't like being thrown off buildings. But you probably think that sticking up for a warmongering and terrorist endorsing religion shows how virtuous you are?

And I have offended you, have I? Poor little darling. We don't call you lefties "snowflakes" for nothing. Thank you for conforming to your stereotype.

One wonders if you also conform to the stereotype of an educated elitist? You can see racism everywhere, except when directed at white people. You think that there are 147 genders, you use non gender specific pronouns, and you have a degree. You just can't read, write, spell, recite your multiplication tables, or do bloody sums.