DeVos booed speaking at historically black university

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7_Sorrows said:
You can say that again! Poor upbringing? Working parents? Or just products of today’s culture?
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In my opinion, parents and students are horrible consumers of higher education. The focus for most should be on acquiring skills that will produce cash flows. Not, climbing gyms, not fancy suites in dorms, but how much can I make when I leave. If the parents can float the whole price, then let them go to brown and study medieval philosophy.
 
SuperLuigi said:
I thought what she said was well-intentioned. The left is just using that a roundabout attack on school choice, which they hate because it will wake up minorities to their real agenda and mean less cash flow from corrupt unions.
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The left hates anyone associated with Trump.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
In my opinion, parents and students are horrible consumers of higher education. The focus for most should be on acquiring skills that will produce cash flows. Not, climbing gyms, not fancy suites in dorms, but how much can I make when I leave. If the parents can float the whole price, then let them go to brown and study medieval philosophy.
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I appreciate your perspective but I have to vehemently disagree. We cannot afford as a society to make the humanities a privilege for only the wealthy. Colleges and universities aren’t trade schools; they are places for people to push the boundaries of themselves and of our world in ways that make us all better. We need economic, social, and racial diversity across the majors if we’re going to grow.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
In my opinion, parents and students are horrible consumers of higher education. The focus for most should be on acquiring skills that will produce cash flows. Not, climbing gyms, not fancy suites in dorms, but how much can I make when I leave. If the parents can float the whole price, then let them go to brown and study medieval philosophy.
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And as much as they are paying in tuition, why waste their time with all the protesting.

I agree with your points.
 
jesucated said:
Can you clarify what you mean by poor upbringing?
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Not being taught how to be respectful or courteous. In other words, behaving like punks.
Were they forced to attend this speech or have they just already been effectively
brainwashed by the left to hate.
Did anyone teach them to act as mature adults? Respectful adults? Or spoiled brats?
Is anyone teaching them how to be a good citizen?
What will these type of people bring to the workplace?
 
stinkcat_14 said:
Does that surprise you? Would Kathleen Sebelius have received a warm welcome at Liberty University?
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I don’t know anything about Liberty University? Never heard of it.
So your question is meaningless to me.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Not being taught how to be respectful or courteous. In other words, behaving like punks.
Were they forced to attend this speech or have they just already been effectively
brainwashed by the left to hate.
Did anyone teach them to act as mature adults? Respectful adults? Or spoiled brats?
Is anyone teaching them how to be a good citizen?
What will these type of people bring to the workplace?
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So because college graduates participated in a form of non-violent protest at their own commencement ceremony it’s evidence that they’ve been “brainwashed to hate” or are “spoiled brats”? And since when is protest the opposite of good citizenship?
 
jesucated said:
So because college graduates participated in a form of non-violent protest at their own commencement ceremony it’s evidence that they’ve been “brainwashed to hate” or are “spoiled brats”? And since when is protest the opposite of good citizenship?
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Protests can be done outside. To boo a speaker is just despicable manners.
 
jesucated said:
So because college graduates participated in a form of non-violent protest at their own commencement ceremony it’s evidence that they’ve been “brainwashed to hate” or are “spoiled brats”? And since when is protest the opposite of good citizenship?
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It was their commencement ceremony? That is even worse!
 
jesucated said:
I appreciate your perspective but I have to vehemently disagree. We cannot afford as a society to make the humanities a privilege for only the wealthy. Colleges and universities aren’t trade schools; they are places for people to push the boundaries of themselves and of our world in ways that make us all better. We need economic, social, and racial diversity across the majors if we’re going to grow.
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I agree that colleges should not be trade schools, nor do I think we should limit access to the humanities (or other fields such as the sciences or the social sciences). But if you are going to borrow money to go to school, you should be focused on cash flows first and foremost.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I don’t know anything about Liberty University? Never heard of it.
So your question is meaningless to me.
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It was the university founded by Jerry Falwell. Not particularly liberal. Although Bernie Sanders did speak there.
 
stinkcat_14 said:
I agree that colleges should not be trade schools, nor do I think we should limit access to the humanities (or other fields such as the sciences or the social sciences). But if you are going to borrow money to go to school, you should be focused on cash flows first and foremost.
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Again, I respectfully disagree. If a student makes the decision to apply to college, get admitted to college, and uses existing systems of funding, then that student should be free to focus on the education for which they have worked and not on the bottom line.
 
jesucated said:
Again, I respectfully disagree. If a student makes the decision to apply to college, get admitted to college, and uses existing systems of funding, then that student should be free to focus on the education for which they have worked and not on the bottom line.
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And when that student cannot pay his student loans, we will have failed him.
 
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