The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth

Good reading

I like this book. And I noticed long time ago all those college scams. I'm very sad to see what is really happening in USA with the education system

Charlie Kirk does a great job of exposing the craziness on contemporary college campuses. Even for those reasonably well informed about this, he adds more valuable information. My reservation is that he seems too quick to dismiss college as unnecessary. This may be true in some cases. He himself is a very smart and very driven person who has managed to achieve a great deal without college, but not everybody has that sort of personality. Many would find college very helpful if they could find one that is not a leftist indoctrination nightmare. Sadly, there are very few of those left, but, if I had a high school kid thinking about college, I would encourage him to go to one of the few remaining colleges that focus on education rather than indoctrination rather than skipping college entirely and I would volunteer to help with college expenses only if he chose to attend a college where he would get a genuine education instead of being indoctrinated into leftist ideology.

Well over due. A straight forward argument to consider before making an educational choice.

The author of "The College Scam", by Charlie Kirk, does an excellent job of exposing the slow death of quality education in the U.S. His expose of this- many "tentacled" octopus reveals the fact that a complete overhaul of the system must transpire.Having taught English grammar, composition and literature at multiple levels for thirty-four years, I would find it impossible to return to the classroom under the present conditions. No longer is the student taught to become a thinker, writer, and defender of a position during a debate or discussion.

I completely agree with the major premise of this book. I have been a college teacher at some level (with occasional productive real industrial jobs) since 1957 and am still teaching graduate aerospace engineering classes at age 87. The author does posit that STEM and professional programs in accounting, law, and medicine are worth the time spent and the cost but that nothing much else in higher education is. Colleges have multiplied worthless majors like Afro-American Studies, Feminist Studies, Women‘s Studies, Gender Studies, Hispanic Studies, Chicano Studies, Marijuana Studies, and now Fat Studies simply to garner borrowed student loan funds from student who otherwise could not qualify for (or would not be interested in going to) college. These students are wasting their time only to graduate with a worthless diploma (if they graduate at all), no employment opportunities, and a mountain of debt. The value of a STEM education from a college may soon be at risk as well. The “woke” crowd is now claiming that mathematics is racist and we need to develop a whole new engineering curriculum that does not employ mathematics. Well, that’s not going to happen, is it? Most of my teaching has been in mathematics and engineering at the graduate level, which means that at least 40% of my students have been from developing countries. I do not remember ever having an African STEM graduate student who was not able to handle whatever mathematics he or she needed. Mathematics is not racist! However, I will admit to having a graduate degree in mathematics and that mathematics is definitely harder than other fields of study.

An eye opener

There is a great deal of valuable information in this book. My son and I both read the book and I recommend everyone who will be going to college read it. It is an eyeopener.

A well-researched, incredibly easy book to read. Highly recommended for anyone sitting on the fence.

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