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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the anonymity. [/quote]

I think it's because manipulators are trying to undermine our universities along with our other institutions. They're spending a fortune on getting talk radio and Fox News viewers to hate our universities.

Of course, plenty of brilliant conservative people go to those universities and teach at those universities. But some suggestible people get riled up by those campaigns and start coming on message boards to denounce the selective university monsters.

I think what the selective university haters miss is that kids who find high school too easy need a chance to attend a brutally tough school with similar kids. Breezing through school without doing much work is crippling. In the real world, people with IQs of 190 struggle, too. If they never have a chance to do something hard in school, they'll get lost and drift once they're out working.

So, regular bright kids might not need MIT, but kids who teach themselves calculus when they're 12 need that or the equivalent to have a hope of having a normal life.

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Huh. You and I must be reading different posts - I don't see a lot of elite university hating. I see a lot of the opposite...calling those students who go to non-elite schools schmucks or using dismissive phrases like "Tailgate State" or flyover state or act like elite Us are the only path to success. [/quote]

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