loosers teaching from their ivory towers

You got that right, those that can do those that can’t teach, but then again I was never tought anything I learnt, I learnt because I wanted too, I for one think a better discription of teacher would be pressenters.

That’s part of the reason I so vehemently oppose government funding of colleges, student aid, Pell grants, student loans, etc. It’s like a taxpayer-funded campaign for the DNC. Unfortunately, most people are of the mind that opposition to such funding means I want people to be stupid or without good-paying jobs.

The truth of the matter is that college is not a wise investment most of the time, ironically especially when it’s most expensive. It too often doesn’t teach anything useful for doing anything but working AT the college or finding new ways to sneak unpopular liberal ideas into public policy. “Law” schools teach how to violate and flout the law. “Science” is teaching that we need to ban flush toilets and treat human life as a commodity. “Psychology” is teaching people how to be mentally ill! Meanwhile, these people can’t even use pronouns correctly.

…from a top-40 MBA program (not to brag), I can say that what you are describing is not completely true, nor even relevant. Some of the professors are liberal. Some are conservative. Some are even socialists; and some, like my irascible microeconomics professor, are free-wheeling free-marketers who simply believe that all politicians will take from those who don’t vote for them and give to those that do.

Yeah, even in B-school, most professors are more moderate, even liberal, than you or I. Rarely by the time someone reaches the MBA level will this make a difference in the student’s belief system.

The real problem isn’t one of liberal professors in “top-tier” B-schools. There real problem is that these students are taught, from the day they enter Kindergarten, that government is there to protect them. They carry this belief with them their whole life, into business school (where liberal profs simply confirm it), and into the business world.

Then, when they screw up, they go crying off to mommy (the Feds) to come fix their boo-boo.

Welcome to the world of government education. Send your kids to private school…

I’m guessing you have never sat inside a boardroom or a corporate planning meeting or business performance review meeting with the CEO and CFO, have you?

This is not in any way an honest representation of corproate executives. Or do you think all that risk taking was just a plan to force a collapse of their businesses to ahve an excuse for government takeover…

My point is that the CEO’s of the top 100 companies in the US have enormous power and they are not using it to further the free market while protecting our country. They are not even making a profit for shareholders. Why is that?
My position is not that degrees are useless or that by attending a liberal school one is destined to fail as an executive or that all business school professors are socialists and worse neo-Marxists.
What I am simply pointing out is that America used to have business owners who built companies and their careers based on personal drive and merchant ability and respect for this nation. Now that is not the case, as a country we’ve institutionalized our industry and made certain education a prerequisite for leadership instead of leadership itself.
Even more important is we have no place for moral leadership in commerce that recognizes the unique greatness and purpose of our country. This is severely lacking in the large and powerful companies in this country, as demonstrated by their tacit participation in, their preparation for and reaction to the election of Barrack Obama and his subsequent administration vis a vie this so called “Economic Crisis.”
What this means is that by and large these men and women are philosophically opposed to and mainly ignorant of the principles that founded this country. How would they react to Milton Friedman’s article The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits. ‘I read it. I can *regurgitate some facts in support and opposed*.” But it doesn’t penetrate their worldview. They don’t really believe that this is the bedrock of our marketplace and system of economics. Unless of course, in their minds they warp The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase MY Profits. We need to wake up, these businesses are not the last bastion of freedom – they too have been co-opted into a subservient second tier position within the government-media complex.

… The problem is that we don’t have BUSINESS schools. These schools don’t really teach business. They teach “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying…”