MUST-WATCH: CNN’s Fareed Zachariah Gives A SCATHING Criticism Of Higher Ed’s Politicization
It's not often that CNN is on the right side of an issue... but full marks for this one
If anyone was still wondering how badly those three Ivy League presidents stepped on rakes during that Congressional testimony about antisemitism, CNN just gave them a beat-down for being too ideologically leftist.
Read that again. Slowly.
Fareed Zacharia doesn’t have very many things in common with the typical ClashDaily reader. But after seeing those three Ivy League Presidents blow themselves up for all the world to see, Fareed opened up a can of whoop-@ss on how higher ed is trading their reputation of being some of the most prestigious centers of education in the world, to glorified ideological training centers.
America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.
My take: pic.twitter.com/smjkQ9fngE
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) December 10, 2023
For a guy who has more in common with Bernie Sanders than Mike Lee, seeing him take 6 minutes to tear a strip off of these schools — and their political monoculture in particular — is something worthy of notice.
It’s a shift.
A signal that even their political allies think they’ve pushed too far with their agenda.
If enough voices on his side of the aisle join the chorus and call out some of the nonsense he’s putting in the spotlight, there is a (slim) chance that a system that has been thoroughly captured by what Rudi Dutschke called ‘long march through the institutions’ might not have to be the irredeemable write-off we’ve assumed them to be.
In the meantime, public opinion about the real value of their degrees has been in freefall. The price tag attached to such a dubious degree won’t be helping any.
The free market is already at work in generating alternative ways to teach students the skills they would have otherwise gotten in school, or testing how real-world skills have been successfully mastered without formal training.
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