One of the employee’s I supervise is attending school at Metropolitan State College of Denver – locally referred to as Denver Metro. <\/p>\n
She is a biology major but is required to take a history course as a general education requirement. The course she is taking is called American Civilization. The course description of the class says, “American Civilization is an entry-level American history course designed to trace the roots of contemporary America.”<\/em><\/p>\n Sounds like a good course and its intents probably are. Unfortunately, professors have their own agendas. The instructor of this class assigned Michael Moore’s book “Downsize This<\/em>“. Michael Moore is as liberal as they come. The idea that his book is a “text book” is laughable. Not only is it biased, I really can’t find a meaningful connection between a course on American History and a criticism of corporate America.<\/p>\n If that isn’t bad enough, the student told me today that her classed was canceled so they could complete an assignment to – get this – go find a tree, sit next to it and get in touch with herself. <\/p>\n Really, a history class has turned into an indoctrination of New Age spirituality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the employee’s I supervise is attending school at Metropolitan State College of Denver – locally referred to as Denver Metro. She is a biology major but is required to take a history course as a general education requirement. The course she is taking is called American Civilization. The course description of the class … Continue reading “Higher education isn’t educational”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}