Bill O’Reilly - America’s Expensive Indoctrination Camps

[lovedforaday]

Who says America is going downhill? When it comes to at least one measure, our nation is way out in front, with the ten most expensive universities in the world. Leading the way is Sarah Lawrence College, where a year of room and board goes for around $62,000. In other words, it’ll set you back about a quarter-mil to have your urchin spend four

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[nesmith]

Well, this was a typical mishmash of fact-free, intelligent-free O'Reilly spew. Cry me a goddamn river, conservatives--it's not that you're horrible, awful people, oh no--you're being OPPRESSED BY THE EVUL LIBRULS.

Christ what a loon.

[lovedforaday]

i wasn't sure if it was THE bill o'reilly or that other bill o'reilly until i he started calling professors loons.

[mercystars]

[tvisgood]

In other words, it’ll set you back about a quarter-mil to have your urchin spend four years in the Bronx.

I couldn't get very far into this bullshit. Sarah Lawrence isn't even in the Bronx. It's in BRONXVILLE, which is a super-wealthy suburb in Westchester. And Bill can't make that distinction, which doesn't surprise me, but whatever dig at the Bronx being shitty he was trying to make, he failed.

I can't even begin to touch the rest of it.

[amyura]

We are talking about the guy who came from "Levittown." When called out on how all his records AND statements from his mother indicate he actually grew up in affluent Westbury, he tried to say he came from "the Westbury section of Levittown."

[moonshaz]

LMAO!

[hey_spectrum]

He also fails to realize that Brandeis is a Jewish university and inviting someone who is going to condemn Muslims would piss off the Muslim student body and may make the school look pretty xenophobic. But ya know... facts don't matter and the ignorance is strong with this one.

[bnmc2005]

I want to laugh this off because it's Bill O'Reilley but I feel like this is another Battleing Cry of conservatives have been chipping away at Colleges/Universities for years now in order to demonize Higher Education make it less accessible to the masses and to make them less likely to develop critical and liberal thinkers

[moonbladem]

I don't think you're being too dramatic. I mean, Rick Santorum kind of tipped us all off when he spoke out against higher education in 2012.

They do prefer the masses to be uneducated and dumber. Besides that, and all the shenanigans they've been up to, like chipping away at our voting rights, lying about and hurling insults at the left, gerrymandering etc etc etc... how else can they cling onto power?

Yes, they do want us dumb, because then we'd be easier to control and convince whenever they lie to us.

[bnmc2005]

Thank you.

I think they also want to do what OReilly is claiming he's complaining about. There are plenty of Conservatives who want schools to be simple doctrine feeds of certain politcal and religious ideologies, nothing more nothing less.

Oh how they bitch and moan about 'freedome of thought' but when that freedom involved challenging absolutely ignorant ideologies; Creationsim, Patriarchial Systems, Racist instutions, etc. ... Awe.. heregohellcome. YOU CAN'T TEACH THAT IT'S NOT IN THE (Conservative state legislature approved) TEXT BOOK!!!

[amyura]

I'm a teacher. You're DEFINITELY NOT being too dramatic. Education from pre-K through postgraduate is being attacked by corporate forces who see it as the last big gravy train. The private sector has already effectively taken over the military and the prisons, and fought to keep healthcare from becoming a public entity.

You see it in the charter schools, especially in poorer states with worse educational systems. I don't know what it is off the top of my head, but some ridiculously high percentage of students in Louisiana are enrolled in charter rather than traditional public schools. These schools are run by for-profit companies, often teach dubious or flat-out incorrect science, and impose draconian conduct codes on students and teachers.