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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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You didn't need that college to teach you about history.
Part of the indoctrination is convincing people that college is required to be successful and proficient in their field of study. It's how they can get away with abusing their students in this manner because the young adults don't have enough world experience to know that college isn't necessary to learn.
It's also funny, because the students pay for this abuse. And then, like you, they display symptoms of stockholm syndrome whenever anyone dares to mention that abuse has even occurred. It's always easier to pretend you haven't been taken advantage of than to admit you got played.
Yeah, you end up "doing your own research" and just falling into right-wing grifts and bullshit because if you lack background in a field, it's pretty damn hard to do actual meaningful research.
College isn't absolutely necessary to learn, but for most people, it really is. Or even if people don't fall into right wing fever swamps, they often cannot distinguish between appropriate sources. You try to teach yourself engineering, and all you end up doing is watching a bunch of infotainment engineering youtube channels.
What information are professors giving you that you can't get anywhere else?
As far as history is concerned, everything they teach should come from a source other than the professor.
Your history course boils down to them walking you through a textbook. If you can read and comprehend what you're reading, then the professor is unnecessary.
But hey, you already realized this, right?
None. The value-add that good schools and curriculums provide is curation of information, and presenting it in a time-efficient way. For a practical demonstration of the value, try learning Linux shell scripting only from man pages.