Showing posts with label students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label students. Show all posts

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.” 

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Isreali Students Paid $2,000 To Spread State Propaganda On Facebook

Free speech on the internet has been the most useful tool for spreading information and connecting with people around the world but as the establishment governments around the world have realized how detrimental the open web has been to their agendas, it's become a target of sorts for disinformation which even the US military has admitted to be taking part in but the true depth of what they do is a bit unknown although we can speculate.

The National Union of Isreali Students (NUIS) is now working full force with the government to lead the way in spreading what they claim to be "true propaganda" in an effort to battle Jewish antisemitism where students can apply to work about 5 hours a week to "refute" what it calls "misinformation" about Isreal on social networks. This is also being done in partnership with the Jewish Agency, the Isreali body that encourages Jews from around the world to settle on stolen Palestinian land, to spread propaganda on campuses around the world.

It's hard to imagine a government being directly and openly involved in "spreading true propaganda" but it's not far from reality even in the United States where legislators have proposed "fact checking" agencies that would be tasked with determining whether certain information on web is "factual" or not and warning users about content they claim to be nonfactual. Sen. Joe Lieberman has been the at the front of most of the Chinese style proposals to control information on the web along side others in Washington who've been heavily lobbied into support of the Protect IP Act and SOPA.

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