[American Thinker]- When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you coronavirus, start looking at all the good that can come from it. In that regard, if you haven’t already read Gordon Wysong’s delightful article about the benefits that can flow to America from its brush with coronavirus ("The Coronavirus Will Save America"), you should. It will lift your spirits.
In keeping with Mr. Wysong’s premise, here’s one more beneficial change that might flow from the coronavirus interlude in America: It may weaken America’s institutions of higher indoctrination, also known as America’s colleges and universities.
...Online education also means colleges need less money because there aren’t students on campus. The enormous administrative staffs that are primarily responsible for the increase in college costs become unnecessary.
It turns out, though, that there’s another, unexpected upside to coronavirus, which is that the changes to academia will take foreign money, especially Chinese money, out of college campuses. At the Daily Caller, in an article that’s behind the Patriots paywall, Marlo Safi explains that "U.S. Colleges May Suffer Billions In Revenue Loss Due To Coronavirus Travel Restrictions.
IMO, Universities should be a place for research and scholarship. Professional training should be handled by trade schools. |