Friday, January 6, 2012

College Students Demonstrate the Idiocy Of Our Education System

The video below is from a FOX News segment interview with Jack Chambless, an Economics Professor from Valencia College in Florida on the topic of his recent stunning findings after asking 180 of his students to write a short paper on what the American dream means to them and how the federal government should be involved.

What the Professor received from a large majority of his students was shocking to say the least as it demonstrates just how self-involved Americans are becoming and potentially what the future in America will look like while so many students expect a nanny government to serve them a simple wealthy life with free health care, down payments for homes, forgiven student debt, etc.

"I took the essays from three classes – about 180 students…
About 10% of the students said they wanted the government to leave them alone and not tax them too much and let them regulate their own lives.
But over 80% of the students said that the American dream to them meant a job, a house, and plenty of money for retirement and vacations and things like this. When it came to the part about the federal government,eight out of ten students said they wanted free health care, they wanted the government to pay for their tuition, they wanted the government to pay for the down payment on their house, they expected the government to, quote, “give them a job.” Many of them said they wanted the government to tax wealthier individuals so that they would have an opportunity to have a better life."
A shocking excerpt from one student's paper:
“As human beings, we are not really responsible for our own acts, and so we need government to control those who don’t care about others.” 

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