Jeremiah 2: 15-18—“The young lions have roared at him, they have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant. Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head. Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking Yahweh your God when He led you in the way? But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?”

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The Word of Yahweh:

Thus says Yahweh concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.  And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.  Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.  But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it,” declares Yahweh. (Jeremiah 12: 14-17)

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Jeremiah 2: 15-18—“The young lions have roared at him, they have roared loudly.  And they have made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.  Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.  Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking Yahweh your God when He led you in the way?  But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile?  Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?”

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Recent reports critical of college education have concluded that most college students don’t learn very much.

In yesterday’s American Thinker, an article by Aaron Gee caught my eye.  The title is a question: Are We Getting Our Money’s Worth in Higher Education? The answer is “no”.  Here’s why:

University faculty are paid to teach, do research, and provide service.  The service part includes many things such as committee involvement, working with outside groups, and a host of other disparate things.  Service is not the problem.  The research part is problematic, though, because few university faculty do it, and only a small percentage of those who do research do very much of it.  Even more problematic, the definition of “research” at most universities in most fields is so narrow that only “academic research” qualifies.  Have you ever heard someone say, “That’s academic”?  That’s a polite way of saying “that’s obvious” or more to the point, “that’s irrelevant”.

I’m reminded of something former United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk told me while he worked at the University of Georgia at the end of his career.  I was working on my Ph.D. at the time, and I asked him what he thought about academic research.  He looked at me for what seemed like an eternity and studied my expression.  He knew that I was working on a doctorate, and Ph.D. programs are all about research.  Finally, he said, “Neil, we’re wasting a lot of good trees.”  I laughed, but having spent my professional career as a professor at the University of Virginia, I agree with him.

Don’t get me wrong.  I think research is important, and I think university faculty should be required to do it, but the definition of “research” needs to be broad, and the exclusive focus on “academic research” needs to be abandoned.  In most instances, academic research is little more than academics talking to each other in journals.  If you have ever read an academic research article, you know how boring they are, and most of what qualifies as academic research is useless on a practical level.  It may surprise you do discover that only a few thousand people typically belong to “academies” and receive journals containing academic research.  Of those, a small percentage actually read the journals.  For many faculty, academic journals are little more than bookshelf space-fillers.

Recap: few faculty do much research; those who do most of the research tend to focus on academic research; and most academic research is, to paraphrase Dean Rusk, wanton destruction of trees.

This brings me to my main point.  Since faculty are paid to do research, they are given light teaching loads.  At most universities today, a faculty member who teaches 6 hours per week is an anomaly.  Most of them teach less than that, and if you average the number of hours they teach per week over a career, much less than that.  Referring back to the recap above helps to put the problem in perspective, but that’s just a part of the story.

If you are a parent paying college tuition, it should disturb you to discover that your sons and daughters may not see a full professor in a classroom until they are in their junior year.  Why?  It’s because full professors are busy doing research.  Again, please refer back to the recap above.  Most of the teaching at universities is done by junior faculty (assistant and associate professors), adjunct faculty, and people who are marginally qualified at best.  They may be entertaining and students may like them, but they are not the best the university has to offer.

It should come as no surprise that recent reports critical of college education have concluded that most college students don’t learn very much.  For example, see

College tuition being what it is, you have a right to expect that you are getting a good return on your investment, but in most cases you aren’t.  That’s got to change.  Dick and Jane may not be learning anything in college, but as we say in the South, “How ‘bout them Dawgs.”

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