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The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no longer is higher or much of an education.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Center Destroyed Education Higher Higher Education Learning Longer Much Professors Steadily Systematically University Which Working

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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

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Fox News and other Trump-friendly media long ago became fever wards of speculation and conspiracy-mongering as they obsessed over plots from the Deep State.

~Charlie Sykes

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The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.

~Charlie Sykes

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To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.

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Topics: College Fail Push Put Sets Students Up

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Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.

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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Academics Actually Annoys How Little Little Time More Nothing Out Pointing Spend Students Teaching Than Time

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There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.

~Charlie Sykes

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The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work.

~Charlie Sykes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Professions

Born: November 11th, 1954

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