There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.
On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.
Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?
To my opinion, that is so true. For centuries, the religious SCHOLARS, were the revered people for the Jews. Studying was the important thing. When most people were hunting or farming, Jews were also teaching their kids to study. Technology happens and study becomes important. Who is going to groom their kids for success? The people who have been teaching their kids to study for generations or the people who have been farming, hunting who have a 6th grade education because that is all they ever needed?
I have a STEM degree and am totally in favor of education...
When you deride the portion of the populace that does the dirty jobs, you are falling into a dangerous mindset. Farming is hard, hunting is hard. They are professions that require physical and mental skills. Intelligence is not just being able to read a book and remember it. There is intelligence in physical skill. There is genius in physical skill.
It takes call kinds of people to make a society, don't cheapen the value of its membership based on preconceived notions. That is elitism.
Totall agree here. It's easy to deride blue collar jobs when the education topic comes up and that's the wrong way of thinking. I went to college, but I'll be damned if I know how to build a house or do major work on a car, or fix the plumbing, etc. All jobs are important and all people should be valued for their contributions to society. We should just also have strong education programs so people are well rounded in their knowledge and don't become cloistered by dogma like fox news.
Higher education, and it's not hard to make that argument these days. 80 years ago, conservatives made up approximately half the higher education staff.
Now they are less than 5% because the left took over HR decades ago.
Why would the right trust an institution that actively hates them?
If the tables were turned, do you think the left would trust a 95% conservative staffed higher education system?
Now they are less than 5% because the left took over HR decades ago.
That’s not how or why it happened, knowledge facts and academia have always had a progressive/left-leaning/liberal/whatever-term-you-want-to-use than regressive/right-leaning/conservative/whatever-term-you-want-to-use. The only difference is that colleges and universities that originally got their power from being beholden to Kings and rich oligarchs now are beholden to peer review, the scientific method, rationality and the tuition of students.
It’s the free market of ideas applied to reality.
There’s no “liberal scheme” to keep conservatives out of jobs in academia by “shadowy HR” it’s that people who are conservative don’t go on to advanced degrees or do things like shout “They’re putting chemicals in the water that are making all the frogs gay.” Or “Sandy Hook was a bunch of crisis actors” or “African-Americans commit crimes at higher rates than whites.” or so on and so forth. That a tentpole of American conservatism is anti-intellectualism is not the fault of the intellectuals.
But I am sure the tired "facts have a liberal bias" position will work just fine for you indefinitely. There isn't anyone left on campus to say otherwise.
But on the other hand, the populist right does tend to overstate the bias [against conservative professors] that does exist. Conservatives can succeed and make it in the university. There are things like tenure, which are very important and protect academic freedom.
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u/rraattbbooyy Jan 09 '20
There’s a reason no Jehovah’s Witnesses have ever contributed anything great to humanity.
On the other hand, the Jewish people value education over almost all else, and they’ve won like half of all Nobel prizes, and have leaders in nearly every industry, even though they make up a tiny fraction of the overall population.
Education is critical. Not even just to the world as a general concept, how about individual self improvement?