Reddit reviews Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education
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Didn't Brennan & Magness refuted this "neoliberal hegemony" myth emprically?
>Then our whole university system should be burned from the ground up. The point of our university system isn't to learn, you can learn anything you want for much much cheaper on your own. People go to University for the social experience and networking.
>UCLA and other big brand Universities have fooled you and everyone else into thinking that it's a skills meritocracy. It's not. It's a networking meritocracy. Expecting it to be anything else means you don't really know the truth of the system.
Honestly, yes. Our university system is beyond fucked up. Read Jason Brennan's Cracks in the Ivory Tower; it shows how bad it is - honestly, I would rather take the east Asian system of basing everything on a test score than what we have now (indeed, the reason why those countries do that is because anything else is easily corruptible in their countries). Where did I say that I thought the current system is a meritocracy? I mentioned meritocracy because it should be a goal to strive towards, and indeed, many countries do a better job than the US in that respect.
>THE WHOLE ADMISSIONS PROCESS IS LIKE THIS.
>You are "calling out" 0.01% of the students admitted to UCLA. What about the other 99.99%?
>Making moral judgments about Val and her NCAA gymnastics team is 100% cherry picking what you get outraged about.
There's a name for the kind of argument that you just made. My criticism of Miss Val doesn't mean that I won't criticize other aspects of admissions, and indeed I have some very strong opinions on the state of college admissions today.
>3 national championships is a hall of fame career. Let's wait until she gets there.
She's won 4 of the last 6 and is a favorite to win again this year. More germane to this argument though is that she has done so without being able to rely on the name-brand juggernaut that is UCLA and has gotten more out of less.
>And KJ sure as hell hasn't done as much for the sport as Val. KJ hasn't ever said anything to go against her conservative schools agenda. Hell, they even went to visit Trump when countless other athletes have refused to go. Not sure how you can compare Val to KJ when KJ let Trump parade around in front of her team like he belongs there.
>Now that I think about it, I haven't ever heard KJ say anything other than typical coach-speak stuff.
Shifting goalposts. I don't think it's disputed that Miss Val has had profound influence on NCAA gymnastics. I will agree that KJ will not have the cultural legacy that Val has had on the sport, but that was not what I was making the comparison for.
As for KJ, I am evaluating her merits as a coach. She has been extremely effective at that. Her first win in 2014 involved exactly 1 elite - McKenzie Wofford. They went neck-and-neck against a Florida team loaded with former elites and an Olympian in Bridget Sloan. Since then, her 3 subsequent championships have been decisive, winning and winning big against teams that are no less talented than Oklahoma's. You can say "well she should recruit better", but she has a more difficult recruiting sell (though it has been getting easier as of late because of the championships) than UCLA or Florida. She might indeed be somewhat boring, apolitical, and unwilling to say profound or controversial things, but she is a frighteningly effective coach that delivers results.