Disengage From the US Government  Email Print  Recently by Fred
Reed: White Trash and the AmericanExperience       Disengagement
from the system of universities, or as I should say,
“universities,” is also advisable. This is true, first, because
if you seek cultivation, to gain a grasp of such matters as
history, literature, the arts and the sciences, you can do it
better on your own. Professors serve little purpose other than
to ensure that the student does his homework. If the student
wants to study, he can do it by himself, and if he doesn’t want
to study, he has no business in a university.  Second,
universities these days, with exceptions I hope, are citadels of
intellectual darkness. They teach little, and chiefly serve to
force the young to borrow backbreaking sums from colluding
banks. The wasted time and phenomenal cost cannot be justified
unless they provide some remarkable recompense, and they do not.
Universities largely prepare the student for a life of office
work in some dismal institution, tr