By Professor Doom
As part of my
investigations into the fraud of higher education, I examined graduate programs
in Education, the field of teachers. Educationists have a freakish, scary
influence in higher education, and administrators lap up every crazy idea
advanced by Educationists no matter how bizarre. Administrators get their
degrees through Education departments, however…they may as well be the same
people.
It was then I
learned that many “specialist” Education graduate degrees contain no actual
specialized information. A Math Education degree holder, for example, need not
have taken any mathematics more advanced than high school (specifically, 10th
grade algebra), and the other subject degree programs were likewise bizarre in
terms of actual subject knowledge.
While getting
into a mathematics degree program requires training in mathematics and
demonstrations of knowledge on tests like the GRE, getting into a graduate
Education program requires…a credit card.
Real
Analysis
Topology
Abstract
Algebra
Probability
Theory
--my first
semester course load in graduate school. Note: these are mathematics courses.
Successful candidates in Concordia
Portland’s M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction: Mathematics will demonstrate:
- Expertise in the utilization of new methods of authentic assessment and strategies as tools to evaluate student learning progress.
- The ability to modify instructional plans and promote alternative goals and strategies when necessary, particularly in relation to assessment results.
- Effective instructional skills in planning, implementing, and assessing instruction in settings that include diverse cultural populations and special needs students.
--Right off
the online study website of a big school. I openly defy the gentle reader to
find any actual math in that. Note: you need not have any mathematical knowledge to enter this graduate program. Note also: I’m not boasting when I say I have all
those skills; I maintain most every teacher with 2 years or so of experience
has those skills as well (the words used to the describe the skills are big,
but there isn’t much there, honest).
Educationists
don’t just tend to be ignorant of their own field, Educationists tend to be
very Left-wing as well. It’s hard to notice such a thing because, well, lots of
faculty are Left-wing.
It’s no secret there’s a powerful
Leftist bias in the professoriate of higher education, every study
on the subject shows the bias to vary between “dominating” and “exclusive.”
Part of this is because of the different mindsets involved: conservatives have
tolerance for liberals, but not the other way around. Conservative faculty can face
persecution and harassment from the liberal faculty, and they can get no
protection from the kangaroo campus court system, a system where conservatives
will typically be judged by the same people doing the harassing. I can’t count
the number of times I’ve seen faculty/administrators who are doing the evil be
on the committee investigating themselves…and clearing themselves of
wrongdoing. The
standard of proof to win in these cases is beyond overwhelming and still
takes 7 years of battle.
A recent article
suggests another reason why Educationists are Leftists, by and large:
I foolishly though
Educationists were learning about Education in their Education programs, much
as I learned mathematics in my mathematics program. How silly of me.
“In light
of recent national and world events, the doctoral students of the inaugural
cohort of the EdD-Educational Leadership program at the University of
Washington Tacoma (UWT), must state our support for student activism, members
of the Black Lives Matter movement, and those who wish an end to hateful
rhetoric and the violence happening against our communities of color and within
our institutions of education,”
--EdD
stands for Educational Doctorate, which apparently means you can “state (y)our
support” of whatever crazy cause is popular of late…
How
insidiously incestuous! Administrators slavishly adhere to Educationist
claptrap, because Education departments are what award those Administration
degrees (which I
likewise investigated in detail) that allow our Poo Bahs to plunder
lead our institutions of higher education.
Now those same
leaders are setting up their own “Education Leadership” programs. Since neither
discipline (sic) understands the purpose of education, it’s only natural I
suppose that the new graduate coursework would involve such incredibly simple
skills as “state support for student activism, members of the Black Lives
Matter movement…” or whatever is currently politically correct.
Hey, I’ve got
nothing against protests, but somehow I suspect whatever these supposed
academics are learning is every bit as one-sided as a Bill Maher monologue.
What is
Educational Leadership about, anyway?
“to address
conceptual issues of the roles educational leaders play in leadership,
management/administration, and political advocacy.”
I’m so
tired of Educrats bleating about leadership. Leadership
is not what higher education, or any education, was about, ever. And we’re
cranking out more leaders that don’t have a clue what they’re supposed to be
doing. Again, I’ve nothing against leadership…but I’d rather philosophers and
psychologists, you know, fields with at least some successful track record,
address the concept of leadership, instead of Education, with a record of
perpetual failure.
Instead of
learning about Education, these people are merely getting deep indoctrination
in a deadly ideology. I really want to emphasize how horrid the “education”
here is. Let’s see what the graduates say they’ve learned about leading in
higher education:
“Looking
back on our three years of study and community service through internship, we
recognize the influences of critical theorists and educational reformers, and
many others who speak out on behalf of those who have been systematically
silenced,”
--do note:
normal Ph.D. programs take 4 years. Not Education Ph.D.s, though, which take
but 3 years.. I guess this is fine: if you don’t need to know anything beyond
recognizing the influence of others, no need to take 4 years learning it.
Great! They’re
going to speak out against those who have been systematically silenced! I guess
that means they’ll do something about the horrible treatment of faculty; it’s
so bad that posting anonymously is faculty’s last recourse against the culture of
terror in higher education. Faculty have been systematically silenced and driven
out of this system. I know these newly minted ideologues won’t do that, despite
saying they would speak out on behalf of the systematically silenced.
What else did they learn?
“As
students who have increased in knowledge and understanding of institutional and
structural racism, we understand our responsibility to call out injustice and
work toward solutions which create opportunities for equity throughout our
society.”
Great! They know
about institutional racism! It so pleases me to hear they understand that
racism is so institutionalized in our universities now that universities can
openly advertise positions where white
people cannot be hired, because they are white. Does
anyone believe the graduates were told the true extent of the racism now, and
expect these graduates to protest and change a system where having the white
wrong skin color locks you out of a job?
No, I don’t see
that happening. Instead, the graduates’ statements make it clear they’ll just
double down on all the racism that is the modus operandi in higher education
today.
“…promoting
greater diversity on our campuses and in our workplaces; to creating safe
spaces for students, faculty, and staff of color; and to intentionally listen
to the concerns of all underrepresented populations,”
Mercy, more of
that diversity claptrap? I know what they were taught in this regard, as I’ve
had diversity
experts “lecture” me on world history (the
gentle reader should only click on that link if he wants to hear what these
leaders are taught. I don’t really recommend it).
It’s bad enough
that Educationists are not being taught any sane subject. I’d take comfort in
the knowledge that they’re not being taught the perfectly failed ideas of Education,
but knowing that these people get doctoral degrees in pure indoctrination
doesn’t help.
Knowing that these
graduates may someday work in our public schools, possibly even rule higher
education, gives me no hope for the future of higher education, but that their
gross incompetence may accelerate the collapse and eventual destruction of this
system.
I believe one of
the comments sums up the program quite nicely:
I think
Caterpillar has a D6 Model Bulldozer that would work well in this case...We tax
payers must start taking back education from the silly Marxists who have
clearly gone insane.
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