1. Pick your courses carefully. Since you are paying an
enormous hourly rate for classes, don't waste your education dollar on
trivial, non-academic courses, or rap sessions on highly specialized
subjects of no value to anyone other than the professor who is writing
an article for a journal no one reads. Don't waste your education
dollar on trashy courses that are just entertainment or propaganda,
such as courses in horror or porn movies, rock music, witchcraft, or
gay or erotic writings.
2. Don't think that the title of the course is a guarantee
of what the course really covers. Get a syllabus to find out if the
course has been politicized by the liberals and the feminists. The
title may indicate a traditional course of study, but the famous DWEMS
(Dead White European Males), who wrote the great books of Western
civilization, may have been censored out and replaced with Oppression
Studies, i.e., selections from third-rate writers who paint themselves
as victims and attack Western civilization as sexist, racist, and
oppressive.
3. Take courses where you learn things that are true (not
things that are false and must be unlearned later), such as
engineering, math, accounting, statistics, and the classics.
4. Avoid taking advice from college counselors. They are
working for the financial interests of the college, not the students.
Counselors frequently channel students into a schedule that requires
five or six years to get a bachelor's degree -- federal grants and
loans make this profitable for the college. Your degree isn't worth a
penny more even if it costs you 25% or 50% more in money and time.
5. Make sure you don't get trapped in a course taught by
an instructor who doesn't speak intelligible English. Many important
and necessary college courses -- especially in math and science -- are
taught by immigrants who can barely speak English.
6. If you take Economics, seek out the professors who
teach the successful free-market economics according to Adam Smith or
Milton Friedman. Try to avoid professors who teach the failed economics
of socialism.
7. Beware of professors of English who teach
Deconstructionism. That means there is no such thing as intrinsic merit
in a work of literature and that what matters is what you think, not
what the author wrote.
8. Avoid women's studies. They are usually just propaganda
courses for sexual politics and radical feminist, and often lesbian,
ideology and behavior.
9. Seek out courses that teach the true history and
achievements of Western civilization and the United States rather than
multiculturalism, the code word for downgrading America as the worst of
all cultures. Avoid instructors who impose their anti-Christian bias by
demanding that students replace B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno
Domini) with B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era).
10. Don't believe everything you read in the college catalogue.
Many college catalogues are dishonest advertising because up to half of
the courses listed may not really be offered, or may be offered only
once in ten years.
11. Take courses taught by qualified professors rather than by
Teaching Assistants (T.A.s), underpaid graduate students who know very
little more than you do.
12. Beware of crime on campus. Most colleges conceal the actual
amount of crime that takes place on college campuses. If your roommate
is on drugs, has sex in your room, or engages in obnoxious behavior
that interferes with your studying, demand a change.
13. Prepare yourself morally and psychologically for the culture
shock of freshman orientation. You might be asked to role-play what
it's like to be gay, or told that if you object to coed bathrooms you
need psychological counseling.
14. Don't think you can get into a first-rate college because
you are smart. Michele Hernandez, Dean of Admissions at Dartmouth, says
you have a better chance of being admitted if you are from a ghetto, a
barrio or an Indian reservation, or if you are someone they can feel
sorry for, even if your academic qualifications are lower.
15. Avoid the colleges that have speech codes. Speech codes are
Political Correctness run amuck and an offense against the First
Amendment.
16. Don't pile up debt on credit cards. You will probably have
plenty of tuition debt to pay off after you graduate and you don't need
any more debt. Many colleges are secretly paid by the credit card
companies for the privilege of pressuring college students to get
credit cards even though they have no job.
17. Don't think you are getting a good education just because
you get high grades. Grade inflation is an insidious system designed to
make you and your parents feel good about exorbitant tuition rates.
(HM
note: we don't believe the advice in #18 is necessary. But out of
respect,)
18. Seek out companions who share your values and beliefs. [...]
join Eagle Forum [blah blah blah].
