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Well, any old degree meets the prerequisite to be commissioned, which is a much better/easier path in the military.
We denigrate colleges and lower grade teachers because they're all leftist wackos pushing propaganda on kids and young adults, but that's why the left is winning. Imagine how society would be today if all those college professors and high school teachers had views that better align with how we see the world.
We'd probably flip the script and laud educators for being the bulwark preventing our youth from being brainwashed.
Well, obviously we would, but it’s not hypocrisy if it’s true. They are damaging because of how they are. They’d be helpful if they were completely different. (Although I suppose you could argue they may be overproduced regardless of political alignment).
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that the right is hypocritical in its disdain for educators. More like that we undervalue them. I think the very valid critique of the sort of people who become educators has turned into bashing education itself and the profession of being an educator. I see a lot of bashing of teachers and professors talking about how that's not a real job.
Education is important, and learning to think is important. The humanities are important when they're not used as a vehicle for leftist propaganda. I think as deleterious as educators have been to American culture over the last few decades, they could have had the opposite positive effect if we hadn't let the entire profession be basically captured by the left.
Ah, okay. I think that's a good critique. There is a bit of a "just abandon the elite institutions entirely and learn a trade" push, but of course the elite institutions are largely how one shapes culture whether we like it or not....