Harvard is making a fool of itself with its legal action, or intent, against the Trump administration for withholding federal dollars over progressive policies being taught at that institution. Remember, he who owns the gold rules. The beggars in need of money do not have the leverage to command policy. They must do what is required to get the money if they want it. They don’t get to set policy. Those are the rules, and they will be now, and forever. Harvard University does not have the right to federal money. They must do what the federal government requires to obtain that money. And that’s the end of the story. But let’s have an honest conversation about colleges in general, as we should be cutting off federal funding to all of them. We should not be funding the education of people with federal dollars, which goes for all public education in general. Education has not given us an enlightened society. Rather, they have been recruiting centers for Democrat policies that damage kids badly in the critical years of their lives, generally. Some kids escape into adulthood if they have good family support at home. But most have their minds destroyed for the first twenty years of their adult lives because of our education system and we are at a point where we need to ask questions like the one at Harvard, why are we spending federal money on such a waste of money, and should we continue to use the college system as a form of higher education. Or should education be obtained in other ways? Because the way it is now is a complete waste of money, and kids are learning all the wrong things. Not only would I call it a worthless experience, but it’s damaging to people the way it has been set up, and we need to change it if we want to fix what’s wrong at the core of our society.
I don’t discriminate against college-educated people. But I have found that our current education system teaches people to think in a box when learning to think out of one is most needed. I would point to Robert Persig’s Metaphysics of Quality for a really solid philosophical and psychological analysis of our current education system from top to bottom. To use his metaphor, we teach people to live in the caboose of life, not to be in the engine room at the front of the train of leadership. And that’s where we need all people to be. Trump clearly gets it, and he doesn’t care at this point in his life if people get mad at him by protestors from Harvard or any other legacy school. The question we have before us is whether or not a college education is effective, and the evidence shows that it’s not. And a lot of people are functioning as adults with crippled intellects because they had their intelligence robbed from them during their college experiences. To succeed in the college environment, they have to learn to think in a structured box of information when the real problems are out of the box, and require people to solve problems there. People who do not have college backgrounds can get into a useful state quicker than those with a lot of college. But those critical years up to age 22 set people up for most of their lives, and mistakes made at that point in their lives usually last a lifetime. I have seen people reform themselves by their late 40s and 50s. But the amount of pretentious time they spend as entitled in the box thinkers, usually cripples them for life. And it is a real problem. Just having education funded by the government is not the question. It’s what people teach, at the heart of Trump’s withholding federal funds from Harvard over DEI policies. In our culture, as it should be, you pay for what you value. You shouldn’t have to pay for it if you don’t value it. Harvard, or any other educational institution, is not promised money for producing a bad product.
This came up as I was at another one of those lunch meetings, with some people who would call themselves very powerful, and we were talking about this topic and people specifically and one of these people said that so and so was a Man from Purdue University, as if that said everything that needed to be said. This person had a predisposition to hire applicants who came out of Purdue University, which I think is profoundly dumb. But it’s what he believes as an employer. And his comment sparked quite a debate. I am usually polite about my thoughts, so we had a good conversation. But to compress two hours of talk into a few sentences here, he maintained a completely irrational hiring practice of hiring people from a university system that produced bad results that he constantly complained about. And when I suggested that maybe he should hire from the University of Cincinnati, Dayton, or Ohio State, he acted like I was asking him to put on a rival team’s jersey on NFL Sunday. His belief system was part of the problem in why he couldn’t find good recruits to fill his job requirements. And when I told him for his technical positions, he would do better to hire 12-year-old kids who hadn’t been taught to fail than kids who have spent the next 10 years of their lives learning to appease liberal college professors, because they would bring those same practices into the work place, which would make them useless, he thought it was the craziest idea he had ever heard and was quite animated by the suggestion. But it was true and he knows it.
And that’s how it is for most people. We fund education on hope and beliefs built on feelings rather than facts. We like our favorite college sports teams, so we support the entire institution teaching Marxism to the next generation. We don’t say anything about it because we might have won some money on a March Madness bracket. And that is part of the shell game. We root for college sports, which entertain us. But we ignore what they are teaching until we find our kids coming back from college as unrecognizable Democrat ground soldiers for liberal social policies that they spend the rest of their lives trying to unlearn. And a lot of parents save up a lot of money to throw their kids away, essentially into a system that is broken and addicted to federal taxpayer money. Trump has every right to withhold those funds, and no lawsuit can force the public to pay for its own demise, which is what that Harvard issue will come down to. It’s the same problem for every college education system and public school. We have to have an intelligent discussion about what education should be, and what we should do to pay for it. Not just unthinkingly throw money at it and hope everything works out OK. Because it hasn’t been working, and in the state it’s in now, the best thing we could do for education is to stop funding failure. And force education institutions to compete to see what works and what doesn’t. Because as long as they are fat, dumb, and happy off federal dollars, Harvard and the rest of them have no incentive to change. And they need to change a lot!
Rich Hoffman
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