re: Liberal Students at GWU love Trump's Tax Plan

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This is why a college degree is now useless

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College is great. The problem is that HS and colleges don't get involved with critical thinking. It's either 'what I say is the truth' or 'there is no truth so everything is just fine.' Truth requires careful examination and students aren't good at it.

I demonstrated this in a graduate class many years ago.
There were about 20 students and I read the following position on saving the environment:

'In order to save the environment for future generations we will have to change certain lifestyle choices. We will have to adjust thermostats, we will have to drive more fuel efficient cars. It will be necessary to limit a lot of options. You don't need a second home at the lake. Every third offspring should be executed. The amount of money the govt spends on alternative fuels must be increased.'

After that short 20 second speech I asked how many agreed. All students agreed. Me: "So you want to murder every 3rd child?"

They were shocked. They are not accustomed to listening to information and analyzing it. The same applies to what they read.