Across the country, in countless classrooms and school auditoriums, America’s college students and grade and high-school pupils are being inundated today with rambling rants by “teachers” and “professors” who are getting paid to teach courses from Shakespeare to Medieval Music to Physics and more.
Ah, but a captive audience is a terrible thing to waste. And so today, millions of kids who are accumulating college debt or spending taxpayer dollars in government school classrooms are not learning at all. They find themselves trapped by idiots spewing hatred and invective directed towards, well, the students, their families, their neighbors, and their friends.
These boorish barbarians hate Donald Trump. They hate you and yours for electing him. And they insist on telling you why.
In class.
Back in the seventies, Michael Novak observed all of the chatter about the power of corporate executives and the danger they posed to the average person.
But think about it, he said: The CEO of Exxon can’t fire you, can’t humiliate and shame you , and can’t ruin your life. But your college professor can – he can flunk you and humiliate you by lying about your class performance because he wants to ruin your career- that F will keep you out of the best schools, the best jobs, and by golly he’s gonna make sure you pay for having the gall to disagree with his political opinions.
This hatred is based on envy, of course. The college prof and the government school teachers are closely monitored by the Thought Police of their union, their department, and their vicious colleagues. They envy the bright student who is free to choose her own path on her merits. They want revenge, and she will pay the price.
This is going on today, across the country, and it will continue. These “teachers” are losers, sore losers. Our sons and daughters dare not speak up in class, of course: but these poor saps are so afraid of the freedom of their students that they must threaten them, intimidate them, and punish them.
Thinking twice about that college debt? A young student stopped by to say hello last weekend. He’s a barista at Starbucks.
Dead end? Not at all. In fact, he’s a full-time student at Arizona State University in one of the dozens of possible majors, and Starbucks is paying **all** of his tuition in ASU’s distance-learning program.
ASU has an aspiring Honors College and many accomplished professors who will not, of course, veer from Shakespeare or Hildegard von Bingen to bash Donald Trump – because all their lectures are officially recorded.
Tired of paying blithering buffoons to blast their bombast in lieu of actually doing their job? You can tell them to stuff it and get a solid debt-free education, with perks – all the coffee you can drink.
I never thought I’d recommend Starbucks but my young visitor is soaring in their management program and he’s debt-free. Take a look. You might find yourself leaving the blithering babbling buffoons behind.
1:51 pm on November 9, 2016 Email Christopher Manion
