Reply #73: Higher learning is about higher thinking. Seems you can be a rote

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thinking neocon and make it at a University. Is anyone surprised? Neocons hate the enlightenment. Why would any profressor or students put up with a bunch of conservative students walking into class and telling everyone the way it is?

If you are a corporate babe - then that is what you are. Quite pretending your thoughts come from somewhere else. And go the MBA school.

Already scientists are warning the world not to take journal reports from "industry" seriously. That is all politics and what the MBA teaches biotech & drug companies is that the consumer is the enemy - and that they should be as uninformed as possible - so that they take marketing well.

Why is this a surprise?

Hell if neocons had there way - there would be one rare school for the ten of them who have the right to think - and everyone else would be excluded from the raw data. This is exactly what they want. The endowment experts and the alumni to start shaking the tree of higher education so that "alternative views" on science, history, perhaps math, etc. are told to unsuspecting kids - whose parents have saved for a generations to pay for a very expensive education so that their kids would be able to think critically.

Ten neocons deem it not necessary for all of America to think or think critically. So I guess - all of higher education and the experts in all fields - should just roll over and play dead.

That would be a nice world for them. Also known as the Middle Ages.