A Blueprint for How to Save Higher Education | Chris Rufo & Stephen Blackwood

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  • Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
  • Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” joins a panel with Christopher Rufo and Stephen Blackwood, the founder of Ralston College, to discuss the importance of saying no in order to protect and uphold the values of higher education institutions; Rufo’s experiences at New College of Florida, where he facilitated the exit of 40% of the faculty in an effort to change the institution's direction; the need for leaders to set limits and exercise their power to maintain the integrity of their institutions; why liberals often struggle to say no and resist radical changes; and much more. The panel is followed by an hour of Dave Rubin, Chris Rufo, and Stephen Blackwood taking questions from the students.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 98

  • @timothy8426
    @timothy8426 Місяць тому +28

    After all that is going on, who would want to pay to be stupid.

  • @davidhunt313
    @davidhunt313 Місяць тому +37

    *_Separation of Education and State_*_ is even more essential than _*_Separation of Religion and State!!_*

    • @Rensune
      @Rensune Місяць тому +1

      Doesn't matter if you separate them if one party makes worship of State their religion.

    • @FilipinaVegana
      @FilipinaVegana Місяць тому +1

      I am curious to know what is your definition of "RELIGION".

    • @davidhunt313
      @davidhunt313 Місяць тому +2

      @FilipinaVegana Today, I am primarily thinking of Islam ☪️ since neither Muhammad nor the Quran seem to believe the state should refrain from imposing Sharia Law upon everyone... Jews, Christians, Agnostics, Atheist, whatever.

  • @LSD19966
    @LSD19966 Місяць тому +39

    Get govt out, let the colleges guarantee their own loans. Let them sink or swim

    • @TTFN55
      @TTFN55 Місяць тому

      Understand that the federal government took over the student loan business to offset the cost of ObamaCare. Probably the first thing that should happen is ObamaCare needs to be repealed and return healthcare insurance to state oversight. THEN return education to state jurisdiction.

  • @144Donn
    @144Donn Місяць тому +7

    When I listen to Stephen Blackwood speak, I wish I could have heard his "spiel" \philosophy when I was 18. It is refreshing and filled with hope and possibility. Never thought I'd be interested in the inner workings of a University, but Chris rocks the house! I love his story about going in and ousting the witch who bullied everyone! He walks quietly but carries a very large stick!

  • @user-pl9hk4si7q
    @user-pl9hk4si7q Місяць тому +17

    Education should not be indoctrination!!!!

    • @lolololololo97
      @lolololololo97 Місяць тому +1

      Edification is literally indoctrination it just depends on what we indoctrinate them into

    • @FilipinaVegana
      @FilipinaVegana Місяць тому

      @@lolololololo97, Edification?

  • @gracew4194
    @gracew4194 Місяць тому +30

    Praise God someone is finally starting to give conservative families a place to send their children for higher education!

    • @AllanHinde-mb2pr
      @AllanHinde-mb2pr Місяць тому +1

      What’s god got to do with it?

    • @FilipinaVegana
      @FilipinaVegana Місяць тому +3

      @@AllanHinde-mb2pr, to WHICH god are you referring?

    • @johnl5316
      @johnl5316 Місяць тому

      @@AllanHinde-mb2pr I think that that is an idiomatic expression in American English

  • @morningglorify
    @morningglorify Місяць тому +5

    So excited that you make this available on UA-cam. Thank you for your purpose driven everything Dave!

  • @peteralbrecht473
    @peteralbrecht473 Місяць тому +10

    Very good topic. Very relevant and important. Ask tenured Professors to leave early and stop the indoctrination.

  • @user-we2qv1cx6x
    @user-we2qv1cx6x Місяць тому +2

    I appreciate Chris for clearly differentiating between the political and the ideological. These days, many tend to blend the two. I see where he is coming from. Blackwood is a hero to say the least. Thank you gentleman!

  • @darrinheike1495
    @darrinheike1495 26 днів тому +1

    Blackwood is such a great communicator.

  • @nancykasten7615
    @nancykasten7615 Місяць тому +2

    Very interesting discussion. Thank you for giving us hope!

  • @nancykasten7615
    @nancykasten7615 Місяць тому +4

    The purpose of educational institutions is to educate, teach young people to think critically.

    • @jakethemistakeRulez
      @jakethemistakeRulez Місяць тому +1

      What do you think they put first education or profits?

    • @denisevarner7308
      @denisevarner7308 Місяць тому

      Yes and it has been captured as a commodity by ideologies residing in government.

    • @nancykasten7615
      @nancykasten7615 Місяць тому +2

      Now, profit 100%. No university should have a billion dollar endowment fund and be allowed to raise prices every year.

  • @nancykurtz7333
    @nancykurtz7333 Місяць тому +10

    The successful students keep quiet, all the while their work is being claimed by the establishment.

    • @denisevarner7308
      @denisevarner7308 Місяць тому +3

      This is what graduate schools are. Professors use their graduate students' work to advance their own careers without compensation without contributory recognition through publication.

  • @nancykasten7615
    @nancykasten7615 Місяць тому +2

    No is a most liberating word

    • @TTFN55
      @TTFN55 Місяць тому +1

      Yes it is. ;)

  • @gerardsluke
    @gerardsluke Місяць тому +4

    51:15 ahhhhhh!!! This is driving me crazy… you absolutely cannot do anything with higher education, unless you completely do an overhaul with the building blocks in K-12. I’ve been a K-12 teacher too long to see the absolute failure of our schools. The classical model of old must return at a national level. Everything I’m hearing I see every day being fixed in a K-12 classical school. I’m hoping as I continue to listen to this interview (which I absolutely love!!!) ❤that elephant in the room is taking peanuts from all three of your hands. 🐘

    • @gemox3225
      @gemox3225 Місяць тому

      I think you are right about this. I've taught at both the k to 12 and university level.

  • @Quaerens11
    @Quaerens11 Місяць тому +2

    I work at a very large University, and very close to administration. It does matter who is in charge of the federal gov, i.e., federal funding to see the changes in the university. Student tuition is not what funds a university.

  • @susanegittins6258
    @susanegittins6258 Місяць тому

    Brilliant in all 🎉
    Dave, thank you for posting as i watched in entirety. I think i know you enough as a public figure to say you may have held back a bit...lol
    However; your message remains and resonates in a TRUTHFUL way. Great work! Kudos to Chris & Stephen as well.

  • @joycemartin4273
    @joycemartin4273 Місяць тому

    Excellent interview!!

  • @carlaszuch3561
    @carlaszuch3561 Місяць тому +1

    Excellent!!

  • @miguelcastro5211
    @miguelcastro5211 Місяць тому

    This was a great video

  • @barneymiller4088
    @barneymiller4088 Місяць тому +2

    We need to return universities to being institutions creating the next generation of academics. Business school should be converted to a two year trade school. Trade schools should be expanded to focus on many more careers. Artists and writers should be moved to a trade school.

  • @archonicon
    @archonicon Місяць тому +3

    Dave, Warren Smith from the viral video of the teacher who helped a student critically think through his opinions of JK Rowling just got fired from his school without notice. Would love to get your opinion on that

  • @WorldAccordingToGar
    @WorldAccordingToGar Місяць тому +1

    I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. Especially to this new speaker here. We have to stop talking about “democracy“, “democratic“, etc.
    We need to learn and understand exactly what a “Republic“ is. And that it is 180° the opposite of a democracy. And that it is “democracy” that was initially infiltrated into the “republic”. And that is the reason for all disasters since that time.
    Until we start talking about “the republic“, and start viewing the changes that we must make in terms of a “Republic”, we will not have a significant answer that will prevent this crap from ever happening again.

    • @WorldAccordingToGar
      @WorldAccordingToGar Місяць тому +1

      Start educating yourselves and don’t stop it’s an onion that you will have to peel for a long time. You will have to understand the political aspirations of politicians for the past 150 years and read the insane legislation and subterfuge that the population was duped into accepting as “American as apple pie “.
      Federation of States is the site to start.

  • @davel7159
    @davel7159 Місяць тому +3

    If Trump wins the election, he needs to name Rufo Secretary of Education!

  • @TurdFerguson456
    @TurdFerguson456 Місяць тому +1

    Agree 👍. Nice knowing we have logical people fighting against ignorance & nonsense!
    The guys on the outside had some annoying tendencies though, like indulging in multiple long analogous explanations of the same thing. And the stutter-like beginning of each of these explanations was upsetting. Example: "The.. th.. tha, um, way.. the thing.. well it.. um.. it... um.. first off the tha tha um the.. thing is...."
    But now that I think of it, 🤔 I may just be autistic. Hmm.. na

  • @westmassdave7354
    @westmassdave7354 Місяць тому +1

    We need to stop paying this government taxes. Right now

  • @nuqwestr
    @nuqwestr Місяць тому

    Heterodox Academies should be added to this discussion.

  • @brianmccauley7711
    @brianmccauley7711 Місяць тому

    Very interesting and informative discussion. Was challenging to listen to Chris Rufo though with his stuttering and stammering. No doubt he's very intelligent and knowledgeable about the subject matter. But his verbal presentation is an obstacle and needs serious help. Hopefully he can overcome it like John Stossel and some others have.

  • @retirementplanner
    @retirementplanner Місяць тому

    Wow. Maybe one of the best talks I've ever watched. Bravo, you 3!

  • @5peakingon6ehalf
    @5peakingon6ehalf Місяць тому

    🎓🔥

  • @JodiSamurai
    @JodiSamurai Місяць тому +4

    All I can gather from this is that Dave Rubin is a hell of a guy..

  • @christophermearly
    @christophermearly Місяць тому

    Philosophy is solve for x
    Ideology is solve using x

  • @kathiefleming2830
    @kathiefleming2830 Місяць тому

    Someone should advise “how one can educate themselves with at least an associates degree just using the cell phone. This would be much cheaper and could do it at own pace while caring for the family and/or outside job?

  • @user-ib7dd9yi8b
    @user-ib7dd9yi8b Місяць тому

    Who wants to save them?

  • @noemibasset3743
    @noemibasset3743 Місяць тому

    ideology is a poor substitute for kindness and love of mankind

  • @georger6624
    @georger6624 18 днів тому

    I want to know how can the average person help the completely destroyed universities and colleges today they are so screwed up and destroying our kids lives. How can we help?

  • @serinodiaz4140
    @serinodiaz4140 Місяць тому

    Who is funding money to the university and what sort of students are accepted and where do they come from and what about those that are teaching them what?😊

  • @user-jc5zd4pw5m
    @user-jc5zd4pw5m Місяць тому +6

    Overthinking the whole problem. Please read the book, "The Anxious Generation" and remove all social media (ie. phones) from kids until they are 16.

    • @mikedodson4595
      @mikedodson4595 Місяць тому

      The overwhelming majority of parents will never do that. Maybe after a couple of generations of changing the narrative around social media and kids and phones, it would be possible to shrink that majority.
      Unless you're going to somehow force the issue it's a non starter.

  • @dabidibup
    @dabidibup Місяць тому

    Better question: Should they? At what point is it a sunk cost?
    Maybe Universities couldn’t handle the internet properly. Maybe education needs to look different

  • @TheMasonator777
    @TheMasonator777 Місяць тому +2

    No.

  • @georger6624
    @georger6624 18 днів тому

    We need new colleges get rid of the old we need colleges go only by merit and ability and talent. Political practice is not allowed in some colleges now online

  • @derekholmstrom3648
    @derekholmstrom3648 Місяць тому

    Dear Dave ; I have a very good back stretch for you & co.
    Stand with feet shoulder width apart then lean back as far as you can without falling backwards for about thirty seconds, vibrating is okay, then flop forward and dangle hands to the floor ! You sometimes get a pop from your back that feels Awesome and loosens back strain !
    👍🙋😎

  • @georger6624
    @georger6624 18 днів тому

    I pray to God, all the universes fail

  • @atomiota5191
    @atomiota5191 Місяць тому

    He kind of blew it with his itchy declaration that minimalism sucks. What he is Santana of is that he’s objecting to modernism. Modernism was a rejection of the decorative. And the rejection of Modernism was Post-Modernism. Post-Modernism and its relativist inanity is actually what the current conflagrations is about. I like both pre-modern and modernist philosophy. Things really break down with post-modernism, which is just a euphemism for nihilism.

  • @gemox3225
    @gemox3225 Місяць тому

    Christopher Rufo has been impressive in the fight against this bogus Woke movement. He clearly sees through their bull. However I do think he could use some help in analyzing Academia.

  • @allenbradley7795
    @allenbradley7795 Місяць тому

    No big colleges should get taxpayer money y what the hell for students have to pay around 30 50 thousand dollars a semester big ass WTF

  • @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894
    @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 Місяць тому

    VOTE TRUMP 2024

  • @ms181
    @ms181 Місяць тому +2

    leaving...the host is talking waaaaay too much!

  • @escommentss
    @escommentss Місяць тому +2

    That host likes to hear himself talk, doesn't he?

    • @derekholmstrom3648
      @derekholmstrom3648 Місяць тому

      COMMON SENSE IS DIFFICULT FOR BRAINWASHED PEOPLE, AND ALL THEY CAN DO IS GET ANGRY, CALL YOU NAMES OR HIT YOU !
      Stick and stones will break my bones, but they will Never hurt me !!! You are on G O D'S Side of Sanity !👍🙋🙏

  • @POPS417
    @POPS417 Місяць тому

    Don't try

  • @david8905
    @david8905 Місяць тому

    Unless they are all males, please stop calling the audience "guys".
    Try ladies and gentlemen for a change of pace.

  • @jakethemistakeRulez
    @jakethemistakeRulez Місяць тому

    I love how when all the people at a trump rally were chanting genocide Joe Trump said " they're not wrong." Leads me to believe that Trump is on the right side but has to keep it quiet.