Comments on: Last Year’s 12 Most Ridiculous College Classes http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/ The FIRST College Guide You Should Read Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:27:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Liberal Students Throw Tantrum : Conservative Compendium http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-3018 Liberal Students Throw Tantrum : Conservative Compendium Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:58:21 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-3018 [...] Maybe students should target their ire at universities which waste money on silly moonbat courses. [...] [...] Maybe students should target their ire at universities which waste money on silly moonbat courses. [...]

]]> By: april http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 april Mon, 18 May 2009 22:09:04 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-1196 How can you call me anti-intellectual? I wrote a book that questions and criticizes “the institution”. I think that makes me a free thinker if anything else. You are absolutely right about College not being designed for job training. Yet a recent survey by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education shows that more than eight out of ten Americans say that having a college degree is important to getting ahead in a job or career. (That’s a lot of ignorant people -according to you.) Karl Marx? please, can you be more original? I was exposed to Voltaire and Candide in college but didn’t learn to appreciate them (along with Karl Marx) until after I graduated. I certainly don’t need an uppity mean prof to bully me into their version of intellect. How can you call me anti-intellectual? I wrote a book that questions and criticizes “the institution”. I think that makes me a free thinker if anything else.

You are absolutely right about College not being designed for job training. Yet a recent survey by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education shows that more than eight out of ten Americans say that having a college degree is important to getting ahead in a job or career. (That’s a lot of ignorant people -according to you.)

Karl Marx? please, can you be more original? I was exposed to Voltaire and Candide in college but didn’t learn to appreciate them (along with Karl Marx) until after I graduated. I certainly don’t need an uppity mean prof to bully me into their version of intellect.

]]> By: Cassandra http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-1194 Cassandra Mon, 18 May 2009 21:16:34 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-1194 No wonder you think college is for suckers. You're a basic anti-intellectual. College was not designed for job training. That's where the suckering really comes in. Too many schools sold themselves to too many ignorant people that way. You should have read Marx in college at some point. And it's shameful not one of your professors assigned it. No wonder you think college is for suckers.

You’re a basic anti-intellectual.

College was not designed for job training. That’s where the suckering really comes in. Too many schools sold themselves to too many ignorant people that way.

You should have read Marx in college at some point. And it’s shameful not one of your professors assigned it.

]]> By: april http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 april Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:22:15 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-1095 "Animosity" toward thinkers, you say. Hmmm. That's not true at all. You're right however, that I've never read Das Capital. (And they let me graduate with a liberal arts degree without reading that?!) If we are going on your idea that it takes a four-year college education to be well versed in critical theory and history, then that just proves that college was indeed a waste of my money. I didn't learn about Marx until after college. I did read Voltaire's Candide in college - French class. What a witty guy. His satirical view points on society would expand many people's horizons. But I disagree that college is the ONLY place to get exposed to these philosophers. Liberal arts enthusiasts get so bent when someone disagrees with their elitist academic curriculum. I have learned to think on my own and form my own opinions -and it wasn't because I spent 130 credit hours in college. (Eat your heart out Voltaire!) College doesn't hurt. But I still say, it does not take a college degree to expand one's horizons. Anyone can buy a book or Google the likes of Marx or Nietzsche to name drop, quote and flaunt their academic hauteur. “Animosity” toward thinkers, you say. Hmmm. That’s not true at all. You’re right however, that I’ve never read Das Capital. (And they let me graduate with a liberal arts degree without reading that?!) If we are going on your idea that it takes a four-year college education to be well versed in critical theory and history, then that just proves that college was indeed a waste of my money.

I didn’t learn about Marx until after college.

I did read Voltaire’s Candide in college – French class. What a witty guy. His satirical view points on society would expand many people’s horizons. But I disagree that college is the ONLY place to get exposed to these philosophers.

Liberal arts enthusiasts get so bent when someone disagrees with their elitist academic curriculum. I have learned to think on my own and form my own opinions -and it wasn’t because I spent 130 credit hours in college. (Eat your heart out Voltaire!)

College doesn’t hurt. But I still say, it does not take a college degree to expand one’s horizons. Anyone can buy a book or Google the likes of Marx or Nietzsche to name drop, quote and flaunt their academic hauteur.

]]> By: Sisyphus http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Sisyphus Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:34:19 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-1059 Gimme a break! Sure the names of these classes are ridiculous, but your commentary belies a deep knee-jerk animosity toward thinkers (Marx, Freud, etc.) with whom you are pretty obviously unfamiliar. Have you read Das Capital?? I doubt it. These theorists have, for better or worse, influenced the modern world (ergo your world) in powerful, far-reaching ways that you would do well to examine. In the process, you might find that you actually agree (!) with some of what they say. Marx, for example, had some very resonant and moving ideas concerning the basic rights of all human beings, the value of community, and the injustice of profit-driven wars. Beware the fallacy of associating any philosopher with the actions of his/her most radical followers! Sounds to me like you could use a good, well-rounded introduction to critical thought in world history to expand your horizons a bit. Don't know where you'd find something like that, though. Maybe... college? Gimme a break! Sure the names of these classes are ridiculous, but your commentary belies a deep knee-jerk animosity toward thinkers (Marx, Freud, etc.) with whom you are pretty obviously unfamiliar. Have you read Das Capital?? I doubt it. These theorists have, for better or worse, influenced the modern world (ergo your world) in powerful, far-reaching ways that you would do well to examine. In the process, you might find that you actually agree (!) with some of what they say. Marx, for example, had some very resonant and moving ideas concerning the basic rights of all human beings, the value of community, and the injustice of profit-driven wars. Beware the fallacy of associating any philosopher with the actions of his/her most radical followers! Sounds to me like you could use a good, well-rounded introduction to critical thought in world history to expand your horizons a bit. Don’t know where you’d find something like that, though. Maybe… college?

]]> By: #35 Riding on the High Horse of College Modules « Absolut College Girl http://collegeisforsuckers.com/2007/01/last-years-12-most-ridiculous-college-classes/comment-page-1/#comment-915 #35 Riding on the High Horse of College Modules « Absolut College Girl Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:36:25 +0000 http://collegeisforsuckers.com/wordpress/?p=32#comment-915 [...] What would you consider as courses that don’t matter? If you find that learning the intricacies of Cyberfeminism (Cornell University), Getting Dressed (Princeton), Queer Musicology (UCLA) and Taking Marx Seriously (Amherst College) is important, good luck to you. Everyone has their own different standards of evaluating what’s good for them, and call me old-fashioned, but I shall stick to what is considered more conservatively and academically inclined. [...] [...] What would you consider as courses that don’t matter? If you find that learning the intricacies of Cyberfeminism (Cornell University), Getting Dressed (Princeton), Queer Musicology (UCLA) and Taking Marx Seriously (Amherst College) is important, good luck to you. Everyone has their own different standards of evaluating what’s good for them, and call me old-fashioned, but I shall stick to what is considered more conservatively and academically inclined. [...]

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