Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence

[Geee]

Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence

The media blitz during these last several weeks revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.

When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.

Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they recognize the name “Gettysburg”? Could they even identify the decade in which the Civil War was fought?

Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud, and self-righteous. But the media blitz during these last several weeks of protests, riots, and looting also revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.

 

Many of the young people on the televised front lines of the protests are in their 20s. But most appear juvenile, at least in comparison to their grandparents — survivors of the Great Depression and World War II.

How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing?

 

 

 

 

[Geee]

Vandals demonstrate failure of American education system

Last week, yet another mob of nearly all-white leftist protesters terrorized their town — in this case, Madison, Wisconsin. They beat up a 60-year-old Democratic state senator and beheaded the statue of a fervent abolitionist who died fighting for the Union in the Civil War. 

 

All we can say is, thank you. This incident helps illustrate what the current iconoclast movement is really all about.

As the professional Left continues to commit, and its institutional apologists to excuse, these convulsions of nationwide violence and vandalism, it must be noted that such historically ignorant misfires keep occurring again and again — too often to be a coincidence.

In Boston, it was emancipator Abraham Lincoln’s statue that has been repeatedly vandalized. In Philadelphia, it was abolitionist Matthias Baldwin. In San Francisco, it was President Ulysses Grant, who put down the Confederacy's rebellion. In Washington, D.C., George Washington’s statue was pulled down on the campus of George Washington University.