Education...supposed to be a free market of ideas?
In this clip, I interview Ralph Wilson about the HORRIBLE reality that rich people, like the Koch brothers, are dictating and controlling academia through donations.
Ralph emails that sometimes, these donations come with SIGNIFICANT strings attached. Everything about this is horrible.
How could we try to solve this problem?
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My oldest son is attending graduate school and it pains me to think that he might not being allowed or worse yet possibly punished for free exploration of ideas and expression of those ideas. I think college just encourage free independent thinkers to do so.
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yeah, it's definitely depressing
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Pharma companies are not just buying doctors offices dinner. Big pharma starts when our youth go to Medical School. western medicine is frowned upon and dietary needs ignored.
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Let food be thine medicine and medicine be thine food.
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How you solve this problem is to stop voting for political candidates who take corporate donations. Once you have people representing you who actually care about your opinion, then policy changes will follow. That's what the "it's complicated" versus "too idealistic" political canard misses. Candidates who accept millions and millions of dollars from various donors respond to the desires of their donors instead of their constituents. Stop voting for bought candidates, because when you do you are literally wasting your vote. They will not represent your interests. Same thing is true with academia. Don't like that the Koch brothers bought out the program at a private college? Don't pay for education there. Don't hire from colleges that have sold out their credibility to corporate interests. Not unlike what you do when social media platforms start demonetizing channels and censoring content - you go to Steemit or some other platform with credibility. It's that simple. DNC and RNC are corrupt? Vote third party. It's really not that hard to fix. The problem is that people want their problems fixed for them without having to actually change their behavior.
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True that. Education is currently one of the most profitable "industries" out there. Its a machinery which just focuses on pumping out graduates without really "educating".
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there are definitely dictating what pupils can learn or want to learn , it is pure control over the future generations , because there have money , as for solving the problem , the only thing people can do is learn independently , try not to go for donated education , or simply oust these rich people of boards , but alas that is not simple !
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Why does everyone say Koch like 'Coke'? It's Cock. And don't tell em they deserve more dignity. Say Cock brothers.
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That's a serious problem, but not surprising. College administrative costs have been so bloated for awhile and those offers to sweeten the pot even more are an easy corrupting influence.
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Universities in the USA and UK are now just corporate businesses.
I worked for several decades at the University of Bath. The Vice Chancellor (Glynis Breakwell) has just been booted out after being accused of bad governance. She was being paid £450,000 per year (highest paid VC in the UK) and sat on the remuneration committee that decided her salary.
The University once operated on the basis of providing an education that was for the benefit of society as a whole. Gradually it has become a business that operates on the basis of conducting research that draws in the largest possible grants - many of which come from private business.
What was once a relatively democratic organisation has become a tyrannical autocracy.
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When universities are run as businesses, and vice-chancellors and deans etc. act like CEO's, it can hardly be a surprise that money becomes more important than education or truth.
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