The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 13 - Colleges Are Brainwashing Our Kids, and We Are Paying Them To Do It

00:00:00.000 Welcome, everybody. Thanks for watching. Welcome to the car cast, as I call it now,

00:00:05.260 and hope you've had a great morning so far. So you've probably noticed that over the last

00:00:11.360 several decades or so, our country has developed a system, and it's a really stupid system,

00:00:19.180 but it's our system, and it works like this. Virtually every 18-year-old who graduates high

00:00:24.220 school, no matter what their strengths are, no matter what their weakness is, no matter what

00:00:27.360 they want to do with their life, even if they have no idea what they want to do with their life,

00:00:30.720 it doesn't matter. What we say to all of them, no matter what, is you should all go to a four-year

00:00:35.660 college. You should all go and spend $70,000 or more buying this education, and then you're going

00:00:43.300 to spend the next four years or longer hanging out at an institution of higher learning where,

00:00:49.620 yeah, you'll go to class and you'll take some tests, but most of the time you'll be partying,

00:00:52.420 drinking, playing beer pong, having sex. So it'll be kind of like a fun vacation.

00:00:58.860 And once you emerge from that at the age of 22, 23, 24, 25, you will be drowning in a river of debt

00:01:07.400 and booze, but you will have no practical experience doing anything of value. You will not have learned

00:01:14.800 how to live as an adult. You won't have paid bills. You won't be doing all the things that you do

00:01:20.920 when you live on your own, not in a dorm room or something. So you're not going to have any of

00:01:25.040 those skills where you'll have no skill whatsoever, but you will have this piece of paper that you

00:01:31.780 drove yourself into debt to acquire. And this is how young adults are emerging into the world.

00:01:37.520 And we consider it perfectly normal. Emerge finally into the world with no experience,

00:01:42.600 no skill, nothing on the resume, but with a mountain of debt and a piece of paper.

00:01:47.460 But what happens? What do we find? Because we've pushed everyone into this field. And so

00:01:54.280 everyone's coming out with a degree, with a four-year degree. So it doesn't really mean anything

00:01:57.760 anymore. All it means, if you have a four-year bachelor's degree, it doesn't mean that you

00:02:01.820 accomplished anything. It doesn't mean that you're particularly smart. I mean, no offense to those

00:02:05.240 who have it, but all it means is that you were able to stay in college until eventually you got the

00:02:11.620 degree. Um, it doesn't, it didn't require necessarily a lot of work or intelligence or,

00:02:17.240 or, or fortitude to purchase. It just basically required money, which you didn't have, but you

00:02:23.740 took the debt anyway. So people are going out and they're emerging into the, uh, to the working

00:02:29.620 world and discovering that, well, this piece of paper doesn't really amount to much. You won't get

00:02:33.220 me a job. So then you go back to school to get another degree, hoping that the debt from that degree

00:02:38.540 will pay off the debt from the first degree that did you nothing. And if that doesn't work,

00:02:42.260 then go back for another degree and basically just stay in school until you're 75. And what do we do?

00:02:48.440 We just continue to fortify and to reinforce this artificial societal construct. We hear a lot about

00:02:57.360 artificial social constructs. Well, gender is not a social construct, but this is, it's a social

00:03:02.800 construct that we've created now where you basically have to have a PhD in like psychology

00:03:08.260 in order to get a job working in the HR department at a target score, a target store.

00:03:13.540 You don't actually need, now that's it. That's an artificial need. We have created an artificial

00:03:17.980 need for a degree. You don't actually need a business degree to go sit in a cubicle and type

00:03:23.560 information into a computer all day. You could learn how to do that in, in one evening. You know,

00:03:29.400 you could go, you could spend three hours one evening and they could give you the basics of it.

00:03:33.020 And you can learn the whole job. You don't need four years in a degree to figure that out.

00:03:36.100 So for the vast majority of jobs that require a four-year degree, the requirement is artificial.

00:03:43.960 We've just decided that you need it, but you don't actually need it. Now, ironically,

00:03:49.420 as we have inflated this artificial need for a degree, colleges have become, or should be becoming,

00:03:58.280 more and more irrelevant because the actual act of education, that is, um, acquiring knowledge.

00:04:07.280 Well, that you can do more and more on your own. Human beings are more empowered now than ever

00:04:15.180 before to acquire knowledge completely on their own. Because what we all have is we all have this,

00:04:21.040 we have this thing, this device that we carry around in our pocket. And yes, it can be a portal

00:04:27.640 into a, into a cesspool of, of, um, of filth and stupidity. But if we use it the right way with

00:04:36.280 discipline, it can also give us access to basically the accumulated knowledge of all mankind,

00:04:42.380 all of the knowledge and information in the world you have in your pocket, whatever information

00:04:50.960 or knowledge you can acquire at college, I can find it here or in a book at a library. Um,

00:04:57.640 it hasn't always been that way, but now it is. But as college should be more irrelevant than ever,

00:05:04.380 we have made it artificially more relevant than ever. So that's basically that, you know, that's

00:05:11.120 the, um, that's the system that we've established. And there are many problems with this system. I

00:05:16.160 have criticized it many different ways and we could talk about all those aspects. I'm sure I'll talk

00:05:20.840 about them again in the future. But what I want to focus on now is, you know, the, the biggest problem

00:05:27.900 with the system that we have in place now of requiring everyone to go to these colleges. It's not even the

00:05:33.120 financial aspect. It's not that these degrees are, are basically worthless now. It's not that the

00:05:39.000 biggest problem is at least from the perspective of a Christian, the biggest problem is what the

00:05:45.340 college system is doing to the souls of our children. The college system is in the education

00:05:52.800 system. Generally, not just the colleges, they're destroying the souls of our children.

00:05:58.060 We are surrendering our kids into the hands of lunatics and our kids are paying a price for

00:06:08.160 that. And it's a price much steeper than tuition. Now the latest example of this from a couple of

00:06:14.160 days ago, I wrote about yesterday. I'm sure you saw, uh, this woman named Rhonda Gerard. She's a

00:06:21.440 professor at Fresno state, excuse me. She's an English professor and she was a gloating on Twitter 0.99

00:06:29.500 over the death of Barbara Bush. She said she's a, you know, Barbara Bush is a piece of S, a racist,

00:06:35.700 so on and so forth, which there's nothing remarkable about a mentally ill Twitter troll 0.83

00:06:42.320 using the death of a famous person to get attention. But in this case, it's especially

00:06:47.440 disturbing because she's a professor, not just a professor, but she's an English professor,

00:06:53.100 apparently. Yet she's ranting and tweeting with terrible grammar and punctuation. Um, 1.00

00:06:59.240 she's tweeting these insults at a, uh, 92 year old dead woman. 1.00

00:07:05.120 And this is not new territory for Fresno state, by the way, last year, just last year,

00:07:09.340 a different professor got into trouble because he tweeted that, uh, Trump must hang. And there are

00:07:15.340 many, many more examples of left-wing lunacy from college professors. And we could be here all day

00:07:20.960 listing all of them because there are hundreds of examples a day, uh, because liberal professors

00:07:27.340 outnumber, according to the, to, um, the latest survey on this liberal professors outnumber conservative

00:07:34.380 professors by a ratio of 12 to one, which is not surprising, but still incredible 12 to one.

00:07:44.600 They outnumber conservatives. So again, the question, why are we sending our kids to these

00:07:53.940 institutions? Why are we spending exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of having them in

00:08:02.940 these, in these institutions? Why are we paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for Rhonda 0.98

00:08:08.840 Gerard? Think about that. If you're sending your kid to Fresno state, you are paying all of that

00:08:14.600 money for Rhonda Gerard and her ilk. Now there are some good colleges. Yeah, there are a few good

00:08:21.640 colleges, but the issue is that we as Christians, we are not relegating ourselves and our children to

00:08:29.500 those few good colleges. If we did, these liberal colleges wouldn't exist. They couldn't exist without

00:08:37.020 us. We're keeping them in business. We're handing over, we're handing just hand over fist. We're

00:08:42.780 giving them tons of cash to keep them in business. We are trying our hardest to keep these schools in

00:08:49.820 business. I shared with you in the piece yesterday, a woman emailed me just last week. I get emails like

00:08:54.760 this all the time and I feel bad when I read them, but it's also a little frustrating. I got a, I got

00:08:59.340 an email from a woman who's very distraught because her son was raised Christian. She thought he was a,

00:09:06.480 you know, good, solid Christian, sends him off to UCLA. After two years at UCLA, he is now a liberal

00:09:12.300 atheist. Not a huge surprise. As I said, I feel bad for her. I pray for her son, but it does beg the

00:09:20.780 question. Why did you send your son to UCLA? What, what, what good possibly could have come of it?

00:09:32.520 I'm not talking about what good it could have done to his career or his resume. And even there it's,

00:09:38.300 it's dubious, but what good will it do for his soul is the question.

00:09:45.400 This is the thing that we should be focused on as parents. You know, our primary job is to protect

00:09:53.740 the souls of our kids and to fortify them in their faith and to try to make of them virtuous people.

00:10:01.300 That's our primary job. The education system, and especially a lot of these colleges,

00:10:06.380 colleges, they are, they are determined to do the opposite. They are determined to take your kid

00:10:14.660 and to undo everything you have spent the last 18 years doing. Why would you, why would you not only

00:10:23.900 willingly accept that, but pay them to do it? Now, just understand this. College is never going to

00:10:31.500 become cheaper. Um, it's never going to become less artificially necessary. Schools will never

00:10:38.740 stop being hotbeds of liberal insanity until we show a willingness to stop participating in this

00:10:47.860 charade. And people wonder, well, why is it, you know, why are the colleges getting any better? Why is

00:10:52.260 it just getting worse and worse? They have no incentive to get better. We can complain all we want about,

00:10:58.660 ah, the liberal bias on college campuses. Complaint all you want. If you then turn around and give

00:11:03.400 them $50,000 and your kid, it won't matter. Your complaints mean nothing. You know what they'll do?

00:11:11.320 They take your money and your kid and they laugh in your face. No, I've heard all the arguments. I've

00:11:18.260 heard, uh, parents will say, well, you know, we got to fight the system and we got to send our kids in

00:11:25.020 there and reclaim the system. You're not reclaiming the system by giving them money and your kid.

00:11:33.300 Let me fight the system by giving them $50,000. I think we have a confusion here. It's like if

00:11:40.860 you're fighting the enemy and, and so what you do is you, you, um, you, you carpet bomb them with just

00:11:46.460 bags of cash and, you know, food and weapons. No, that's, that's, that's not how you fight the system.

00:11:53.560 You know what you do to fight the system? You take your money and your kid out of it.

00:12:01.540 You starve it is what you do. And besides which, because I know people say, well, you know what?

00:12:09.080 I've, um, I've raised my kid, right? He's 18. And so, you know, I can send him into that environment.

00:12:15.040 He can withstand it. Well, a couple of problems with that. The one that I already mentioned that,

00:12:20.520 well, that's not your, you're only sustaining and feeding the system. When you do that,

00:12:24.640 you're contributing to the problem. You're giving the school no incentive whatsoever to stop with

00:12:30.280 the liberal bias. If they see that you're just going to give them your money anyway, and your kid,

00:12:34.640 what they have no incentive. Um, number two, education, you know, education, it's not just

00:12:43.860 about giving information. It's not just about acquiring knowledge. It's also about forming

00:12:50.380 human beings. Aristotle would have said that education is about making virtuous people.

00:12:56.440 Um, so it's about forming people. It's about forming them in their virtue and forming a belief

00:13:01.680 system. We can talk all we want about how we want, you know, objective education, no bias.

00:13:06.140 That's impossible. It doesn't exist. One way or another, an education is going to have a worldview

00:13:12.260 attached to it. So if you're spending all of this money, don't you want to spend it so that your kid

00:13:20.040 is formed in the proper worldview? Why would you spend it so he'll be formed in a worldview at odds

00:13:27.440 with the one you tried to instill in him? That is the correct and truthful one.

00:13:32.820 Education should not be a war. It should not be an attack. Why should, it's not fair to our kids.

00:13:42.760 That's our version of educating them is just throw them into this environment where they'll just be

00:13:46.900 attacked nonstop every second of the day from every angle. And they'll just be, and they'll just

00:13:53.560 be like torn to shreds and they'll just have confusion and insanity heaped on them. That's not what

00:14:00.360 education is supposed to be. Yes. Eventually we are supposed to be fortified enough in our faith

00:14:08.520 and in our knowledge that we can go into the world and, and fight, you know, fight for Christ and

00:14:14.140 fight, fight for the truth. Education is supposed to form, is that supposed to help form us as the kind

00:14:20.280 of people who can go out and complete that mission. But if a person has not been properly educated,

00:14:27.620 they're not going to be formed enough to be the salt and light in the world. And if a child's

00:14:34.640 education or a young adult's education is against them, is like conspiring against them at all times,

00:14:42.800 well, that's not an education that's going to properly form them. That's an education where most

00:14:48.480 of what they hear, they're going to have to resist and reject. But that's not what education is supposed

00:14:54.340 to be. Not to mention the vast majority of 18 year olds, no matter what you think of your kid,

00:15:04.680 and I'm sure you have a wonderful kid, but no matter what you think of your kid,

00:15:09.360 the vast majority of them are not equipped for just the onslaught of hostility and temptation,

00:15:18.940 which is the biggest part of this. They are not equipped for that. They're not equipped to now

00:15:26.460 live in this environment of constant moral hostility and temptation. They're not equipped.

00:15:34.280 And the proof is in the pudding. I mean, if it actually worked this way, that, you know,

00:15:39.460 you send your kid to some liberal cesspool, and it helps to form them as strong, fiery Christians, 0.90

00:15:46.960 if that actually worked, then I should be able to look around and see a culture filled with strong,

00:15:53.600 fiery Christians. That's not what I see. I see the vast majority of Christians who go into college 0.99

00:16:00.520 and come out like this woman's son, come out basically liberal atheists. That's what happens 0.52

00:16:06.340 with most of them. So this plan of, you know, send them in and trial by fire, it's not working.

00:16:14.580 It has not worked. Maybe we need to rethink this plan a little bit.

00:16:21.180 Let me ask you, would you send your son into a strip club to hand out tracks? 0.98

00:16:29.380 Would you say, well, I, you know, I trust my son. Here you go. Here you go. He's 18 years old.

00:16:33.940 Here you go. Here's some tracks going to that strip club and hand them out to the, uh, 1.00

00:16:37.040 certainly there are a lot of people inside that strip club who are lost and who need to hear the

00:16:42.160 truth of Christ. Would you send your son in? If you would, I would say you're crazy. There is a much,

00:16:48.220 much, much greater chance that this occasion for sin that you have just tossed him into

00:16:54.320 will claim him and destroy him. There's a much greater chance of that than there is that he will,

00:17:00.700 you know, convert all the heathens in the strip club. Our first job as parents is not to, um, 0.98

00:17:07.580 the world. It's not to society. It's not to the system. It's not, you know, it's not that we

00:17:14.480 should, our first job is not to make sure that our kids can compete in the global marketplace.

00:17:19.260 Our first job is to our children's souls. Now, personally, I don't care if my kids

00:17:25.400 make six figure salaries. I don't care what they do for a living. As long as it's moral. I honestly

00:17:33.200 don't. I'm being, now I know my kids are young. You can say it's easy for me to say,

00:17:38.240 fine, hold me to it down the line. I really don't care if my kids end up, doesn't matter to me. I

00:17:45.200 really don't care. They get a blue collar job. They get a customer service job. They get a job

00:17:49.180 that pays them a million dollars a year. It doesn't matter. In fact, I, I, I, I'd probably prefer one of

00:17:55.580 the other two options because a million dollars a year, I mean, we're told in the gospel that it's

00:17:59.100 very difficult for a rich man to get to heaven. So I don't care about that. My, my dream for their

00:18:04.400 lives has nothing to do with income or social status or any of that. I just want them to be

00:18:08.900 good Christians, especially when I look at this world and I look at the culture and I look at all

00:18:14.620 of these kids whose parents thought that they were going out to be salt and light in the world,

00:18:21.860 but actually quickly defected and became one of the heathens. When I look at that, I say, you know what?

00:18:28.360 I just want my kids to be good Christians. If that's all they ever become, well, then they

00:18:35.620 will be far greater successes than the vast majority of their peers. There are a few colleges. I'm not

00:18:43.120 saying that there are no colleges. There are a few colleges that could potentially help them in that

00:18:47.680 pursuit, this pursuit of holiness, which is what we're supposed to be pursuing as Christians. And I

00:18:52.200 would consider spending money. I would consider spending a lot of money on, on a school like that.

00:18:56.340 But I wouldn't spend a single dime on one of these liberal schools, which is most of them.

00:19:06.340 In fact, I would spend every dime I have to keep them out of that school, a school like that.

00:19:13.640 I just, I feel increasingly that it's, uh, it's just not fair what we're doing to our kids

00:19:19.940 and what we're expecting of them, of just throwing them into the culture without any preparation at all.

00:19:29.680 And just saying, well, you figure it out. You know, this is a whole different topic. Um,

00:19:33.760 so I'll probably leave this for a, for a different video, but Christians today in this culture are,

00:19:39.780 they, they, it seems like we are so terrified of extricating ourselves and so resistant to the idea

00:19:46.400 that we should extricate ourselves from any aspect of the culture whatsoever.

00:19:51.500 If you try to, as a, as a Christian family, if you try to establish any barrier of separation at all

00:19:57.360 between yourself and the world, you're going to have all these other Christians saying, 0.83

00:20:01.640 oh, stop. You can't put them in a bubble in the world, not of the world. And so what do they do?

00:20:07.480 They can, they send their kids to the liberal schools. They let their kids watch whatever

00:20:10.360 they want on TV, listen to whatever music they want, do whatever they want online,

00:20:14.600 watch whatever movies. I mean, their kids just are completely immersed in the culture.

00:20:19.760 The parents making no effort to insulate them whatsoever, which they claim they pretend is,

00:20:27.380 well, I'm trying to equip them from the world. No, you're just lazy is what you are. You're just

00:20:32.400 lazy. And also you are addicted to those things in the world. And, and, uh, and so you don't want to

00:20:38.600 cut any of that off, but this is, it's, it's, that's a crazy strategy. We need to have,

00:20:46.720 if you want to call it a bubble, call it a bubble. I don't care. We need to have a protective bubble

00:20:51.860 of sorts around our kids while they are kids and while we are raising them and bringing them up in

00:20:58.320 the faith. All right, we'll leave it there. Um, thanks for watching everybody. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 19, 2018

Ep. 13 - Colleges Are Brainwashing Our Kids, and We Are Paying Them To Do It

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