"Xavier" <x...@nospam.net> wrote in message news:j50v3o$1gbb$1...@digitalmars.com... > > I think the public schools are "teaching" "how to be a sheeple". What > other reason could there be?
Although I probably have about zero business sense, I absolutely agree on this part of what you said. At one point, I went to Bowling Green State University, well known to be an "accept anyone and everyone even if we don't have enough room" party school. Most of the students there generally thought for themselves (even if most of them weren't particularly bright.) Then I transfered to John Carroll University: a private school that, well, it's no Ivy-league, but it's fairly well-regarded, at least around the Cleveland area. Unlike BGSU, JCU is known to be fairly selective. But the vast majority of JCU students were complete mindless sheep. I'm being completely honest when I say it was actually somewhat disturbing how sheep-like they were. Of course, they were also just as dumb as the BGSU students, but unlike BGSU, most of them were uppity, conceited and had a noticeable tendency to mistake slogan and lecture regurgitation for intelligence, ability and independent thought. Conclusion: High schools specifically cultivate sheeple, which is a quality preferred by "respectable" colleges. I couldn't begin to speculate on why it's this way, or whether or not it's intentional by anyone who's still around. But whatever the reason, that's definitely how things are.
