This from the last of a post (“Why College Graduates Can’t Think”) sums up a lot:
More to the point, that explains why employers keep complaining that college graduates can’t think. They’re not being taught to think. They’re being taught, in too many of their courses, to “oppose existing systems”—without regard for any objective appraisal of those systems’ efficacy—and to demonstrate their opposition by emoting.
“Feelings, nothing more than Feelings” is that old song that became a parody of itself. Now, a guide book? You’ve heard us all here at the ‘Grok make fun of all of the Precious Snowflakes on college campuses everything that just say the darndest things (and for you “of age” that recognize that line, it is not meant as a nicety). But this is part of the Left’s rampage through the cultural ramparts of our society (aa, Cultural Marxism). We all know that the educational quotient of a lot of our “students” is falling.
I can’t believe that it can’t just be the innate quality of the students – in a lot of cases, it is the quality of the teachers. However, this post makes it clear it’s been done deliberately under the guise of “intellectualality” (to coin a word – hey, who are you to argue with my reality, huh???). Reformatted, emphasis mine, but this is one of those posts that just abstracting out snippets looses the gestalt of what Rob Jenkins wrote:
In 2010, the Noel-Levitz Employer Satisfaction Survey of over 900 employers identified “critical thinking [as] the academic skill with the second largest negative gap between performance satisfaction and expectation.” Four years later, a follow-up study conducted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found little progress, concluding that “employers…give students very low grades on nearly all of the 17 learning outcomes explored in the study”—including critical thinking—and that students “judge themselves to be far better prepared for post-college success than do employers.”
