In an interview, world-renowned psychologist Jordan Peterson slammed America’s education system for demoralizing young students.
Appearing on Fox News’ “One Nation” this Saturday, Peterson was asked by host Brian Kilmeade for his thoughts on a new study by Intelligent magazine.
Published on the 7th, the study “found that many business leaders thought recent college graduates were unprepared for the work environment and that some managers were trying to avoid hiring them,” as reported by Insider.
Why would this be? Listen to Peterson explain below:
Part of the problem, he said, is that the education system has been “designed to do nothing more than demoralize young people and to convince them that their ambition is dangerous, and even world-threatening for that matter — a manifestation of patriarchal oppression on the social front and then a danger to the survival of the planet on the natural front.”
And well, he continued, if “you don’t do anything to foster that ambition and to channel it into a manner that might be productive, and to tell young people why their ambition might be useful, then you’re going to get exactly that,” which is lazy, unmotivated Gen Z employees.
Another part of the problem are the ill-prepared and “woke” teachers who themselves have been taught the wrong ideas.
“You have to be trained in a faculty of education to become a teacher. Why? They’re the most woke element of the entire rotten university carcass, and they have the hammerlock on 50% of the state budget,” Peterson said.
“You know, conservatives are always complaining about the culture war. Well, you handed all the young people to the faculties of education, right? Their research is terrible – it’s low-rate. Their students are generally very incompetent, comparatively speaking, on the academic front. It’s foolish, and this is the outcome. It’s not surprising,” he added.
He continued by arguing that, according to his research, the education system needs to empower students with “visionary discipline” and direction.
“That’s all you have to do if you want to motivate young people is to teach them a bit of visionary discipline and encourage it. We do the opposite of that. Plus, we terrify them, trigger warnings. We tell them everything is dangerous,” he said.
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Dovetailing back to the study from Intelligent, it also discovered some other things about young Americans.
“Of business leaders who feel recent college grads are unprepared, 70% say it’s a result of their work ethic and the same percentage say communication skills. Additionally, business leaders point to a sense of entitlement (51%) and technological skills (43%) as factors contributing to lack of preparedness,” the study notes.
“The vast majority (94%) of business leaders who feel recent grads lack preparedness say they avoid hiring them at times. In fact, 7% say they do it all the time, and 27% say most of the time. Additionally, 40% say they sometimes avoid hiring recent grads, while 20% say they rarely do. Only 6% of business leaders say they never do,” it continues.
All this comes a week or so after Peterson told the hosts of Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” that he intends to launch a more affordable online university to fight back against left-wing classroom indoctrination.
“I’m not very happy with what the universities have done over the last, let’s say, 20 years. We’re trying to put a system online, Peterson Academy, that will drop the cost of a bachelor’s degree to $4,000,” he revealed.
“We think we can find the best lecturers in the world and bring them to people, and also instantiate a set of extremely, what would you say, severe and high-quality accreditation standards for the graduates so that people who graduate from our university will be stamped… with a credential that indicates genuine competence, literacy, intelligence, conscientiousness and so forth. I think that whole system is ripe for an extreme upset.”
Listen:
When asked whether his online university will be political at all, he basically said no: “Not purposefully. There hasn’t been a purposeful political tilt to anything that I’ve done. I’ve been just trying to say what I thought was true. It turns out that that tends to be more conservative now and in the climate that’s been generated politically.”
He also spoke about the continued introduction of sexually explicit materials in the classroom.
“I think what’s happening in the States is that the answer to the problem of sex education in schools is we’ll just take our kids out of the damn schools. I think the whole system will collapse,” he said.
“I also think if the Republican governors had a lick of sense, especially with regard to long-term planning, that they would take teacher certification away from the faculties of education, because the faculties of education are… sort of rotten central in the university system, and they have a complete hammerlock on teacher certification and therefore… grip on the whole education system,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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