tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post5441952716598810951..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Applying the "Well Rounded" Argument to FathersCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-5451081351154789082020-06-20T15:39:28.994-07:002020-06-20T15:39:28.994-07:00What young people really need to do is prepare the...What young people really need to do is prepare themselves for a career and adult responsibilities. As for a "liberal" education; that can be done part-time over many years very cheaply or for free. Western society has libraries, museums, archives, galleries, zoos, public lectures, educational documentaries galore, not to mention all the information available through the internet. All that is required is a guide to navigate the wealth of information available nowadays. Consider that most university libraries in the Middle Ages had fewer books than your typical public library branch today.SJBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03730062017267927696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-82438308926825959992020-06-20T15:38:38.920-07:002020-06-20T15:38:38.920-07:00What young people really need to do is prepare the...What young people really need to do is prepare themselves for a career and adult responsibilities. As for a "liberal" education; that can be done part-time over many years very cheaply or for free. Western society has libraries, museums, archives, galleries, zoos, public lectures, educational documentaries galore, not to mention all the information available through the internet. All that is required is a guide to navigate the wealth of information available nowadays. Consider that most university libraries in the Middle Ages had fewer books than your typical public library branch today. SJBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03730062017267927696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-67590376258467672832012-06-18T04:49:55.017-07:002012-06-18T04:49:55.017-07:00I remember in college taking a bunch of upper leve...I remember in college taking a bunch of upper level English courses my first two years, then getting a real job at a newspaper at the end of my sophomore year, which I thought was kind of the point.<br /><br />Not quite, I learned. When I went back my junior year, my advisor was completely unimpressed because I didn't "follow the program." Telling him I took the courses I needed to get the job I wanted did not change his mind.<br /><br />That's when I knew they were full of crap and it was just a money grab. After age 18, there is no need for anyone to take any course that does not directly benefit their career focus. I'll even argue that the LEAST well-rounded people are the most successful because they're able to work at 100 percent towards what they want. <br /><br />-- Days of Broken ArrowsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-56385100018634710342012-06-13T15:45:06.279-07:002012-06-13T15:45:06.279-07:00So they say, one can't truely be considered &q...So they say, one can't truely be considered "educated" without a "well-rounded" college experience which includes literature & philosophy and women's studies classes. This is why science, math and tech students are required in university to take these fluff classes. I say, don't bother arguing. Just respond with "Yes, I agree completely. However, don't you think arts students also need to be well rounded?" Then suggest that all arts degrees should require a couple of years of math classes (real math, not the 'math-for-psychology-students'-type of crap). The responses one gets can be interesting, illuminating and entertaining.Chemistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-56512276961038603512012-06-13T13:27:28.645-07:002012-06-13T13:27:28.645-07:00The sad thing is those well rounded requirement on...The sad thing is those well rounded requirement once served a purpose before we gutted high school tech programs and turned universities into job factories. Back when you could get a job, a good job, with a high school education university education meant you were destined to be a leader.<br /><br />As such your literature course wasn't about lesbian Marxist Latin American revolutionaries or gay cowboys eating pudding but Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Milton. Philosophy wasn't Marxism (again) but Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. History wasn't the class struggle but actual events that lead to the world in which you lived.<br /><br />In other words it was designed to teach you how things came to be, how people successfully shaped things, and the kinds of people who inhabited the world. It also taught the limits of power and the danger of hubris. It taught some ways of living were more successful (and thus objectively better) than others.<br /><br />That eduation is still out there. Get the reading list St. Johns College in Annapolis and Santa Fe or a similar university. Read those books and write about them. If you're really lucky read them with others (yeah, like a book club but without the crap Oprah reads).<br /><br />However, now days at a university, we can't be bothered with useful classes. Hey, we can't even be bothered with real math but just take "Math for Poets" (which even then won't help them get my change right when they say what most liberal arts majors wind up saying to STEM majors).Pulp Herbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486803457210325703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-84263159059169714352012-06-13T11:24:32.974-07:002012-06-13T11:24:32.974-07:00Look at what people do and not what they say.
Peop...Look at what people do and not what they say.<br />People like to crow about how "so-and-so was a great man."<br />I say, "Yeah, but he was a sh*tty father."LSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-30276137844515467132012-06-13T07:36:27.973-07:002012-06-13T07:36:27.973-07:00In other words, the only reason to take "well...In other words, the only reason to take "well rounding" classes is because the "well rounding" class professor can't get a job with a Female Medieval Literature Studies in Greek Orthodox Farming degree, except to "teach" others about female medieval literature in Greek Orthodox farming.Turlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04466952089423973036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-54785290224763049922012-06-12T15:03:32.610-07:002012-06-12T15:03:32.610-07:00Huh. Ordinary human ideals exploited by massive b...Huh. Ordinary human ideals exploited by massive bureaucratic, parasitic and/or predatory institutions. You don't say.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06896718673192738974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-62163020454030135432012-06-12T13:54:56.743-07:002012-06-12T13:54:56.743-07:00The greatest hypocrisy I've heard from the lef...The greatest hypocrisy I've heard from the left is that they call nuclear power absolutely dangerous, yet have no problems threatening people to drive tiny death boxes for "energy efficiency". And forget about livable urban areas with no ghetto crime. Ironically, you have to drive to survive in leftist urban cities.<br /><br />I'm not sure about fathers, though, at least not in the first generation. White knights "respectable conservatives" and empowered women come from conventional families. It's an economically ideal union, but the education isn't so great. Big Ed is funded by these types more than anything else, either directly or indirectly.<br /><br />I very strongly suspect the lost factor in this equation is the GRANDFATHER. Someone who figured out how to win at women, employment, and life, early enough to survive to see grandchildren. Extended family life >>>>> nuclear families.<br /><br />Ever notice that the "respectable dad" despises the "creepy" player uncle, his and his wife's old badass fathers, various levels of cousins and in-laws, and even his own brothers and sisters? He just wants to pack his bags and move to a liberal suburb whitopia 500 miles away. There's something to this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com