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1. 
   On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

   You’re right — it’s a fantastic book.

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   On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

   Absolutely right! Back- tracking is absolutely vital! I look to your videos for inspiration. This weekend is going to be heck because final exams are about to start and I have nonstop work to do. Although this video tells the honest but dreadful truth, I somehow find motivation to work through all these classes and stick it to the institution through them. Bless you!

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   On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

   I don’t reckon that a high IQ has anything to do with college success, because a high IQ won’t magically infuse the remedial fundamentals of a subject, directly into your brain.

   There is no getting around the mundane criticality (?) of having been allowed access to the very rock bottom, and building up meticulously from there.

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   On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

   Exactly. BUT, they really don’t want to invest in student success much at all — they want students who they coldly calculate will yield fantastic things, with as close to zero cultivation as possible.

   And the problem is that success doesn’t come without cultivation — or, at least, a solid foundation in total remediation.

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   On May 25, 2010 samatention says:

   You are right college is death camp in the fact it is not a daycare for shit head teenagers. College is a place where information is presented to adults. It is assumed that the people there have iq of 140 or more. Not only that but they want to learn. The distress is a lot adults reckon two things, one they are still kids, second college is a place to party.

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   On May 25, 2010 vanorenstein says:

   The truth about college: Their main function is not just to teach but mostly to attract and retain students that are most likely to succeed. This reflects on the college in the long run.

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   On May 25, 2010 wjwildcat says:

   i really feel that colleges nowadays force people in to herd mentality.

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   On May 25, 2010 wjwildcat says:

   hey don’t you make more money right now assuming you graduated from college? isn’t it worth it. YOu are duke graduate so you must be pretty capable smart man

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   On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

   Well, if I had it all to do over again, I wouldn’t have shot for the moon and gone to Duke. I would’ve either gone to a different school that accepted me, or just dicked around in my home town for awhile and then pieced something together…

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    On May 25, 2010 wjwildcat says:

    When I reached 18, I realized that I had no choice but to keep moving forward without even looking back. To me, taking risks and sucking out my youthfulness and young blood early was kinda worth it. Life is small and even if someone is between the age of 18-25, those favorite moments and period will still pass away very quick. Time flies. I reckon when people are in college, that’s the most critical period in one’s life and how you spend that 7 years pretty much determine the rest of your fate.

11. 
    On May 25, 2010 RiVa667 says:

    new york accent?

12. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    If you realize just one thing, you should realize that these kinds of bastards are playing their life-and-death game of eugenics against you and me, all the time, everywhere.

    In today’s world, everything is about the self-serving, cut-throat fraud that is “eugenics”.

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    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    What I like about Gladwell is that he makes the choice to be radically honest, and to uncover and then openly expose all the hidden forces that really determine success of failure in life — and, of course, all those who really made it to the top through many freak advantages and incredible nurturance from others, then want to turn around and start enforcing the thought that SUCCESS IS REALLY A MATTER OF NATURE (a la Mary Nijhout of Duke University) despise him for that.

14. 
    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    You have my word, sir! Haha.

15. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    You MUST read him. He’s had four books published, and they’re all unbelievable. I will honestly say that a person’s less of a person if they haven’t read him.

16. 
    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    It’s one of the things I despise to say you’re right about, but it’s ultimately the truth.

17. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    Well, I’m glad you got something out of it. And DontGoToCollege is someone I have an dreadful lot of respect for, because he has completely dedicated himself to this fight against these evil bastards, and that’s exactly what they are.

    Keep in mind that I’m not against learning because I’m against college. It’s just that I reckon college is really against learning for certain students, and plots insidiously against them, to exterminate their empowerment.

    College is eugenics.

18. 
    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    I wasn’t under that impression whatsoever, so no worries. I really agree with you. I really have not even heard of Malcolm Gladwell, but I will have to check him out!

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    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    That’s what I thought. They were putting you through the motions, and the only students for whom that worked, were the types who have a gifted passion for massive memorization, or those “royal jelly” types who had the actual excellent stuff lovingly fed to them, somewhere prior to being in your classes.

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    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    Oh, I have no doubt about that! I have watched all of your videos pertaining to college and have been bringing my friends over and inviting them to explore as well. I also started watching DontGoToCollege’s videos. That man is brilliant! So, in addition to your book, I also bought a copy of Blue Collar And Proud of It.

21. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    (cont’d from “malgenics…”)

    …but “desirable demographics have their failures attributed to eugenics, in the sense that “some people are just born with it, and some people just aren’t”.

    That’s what the pre-medical undergraduate advisor at Duke, Dr. Mary Nijhout, did to me and to a lot of the hispanic and black pre-med aspirants I talked to. And even to this day, Duke continues to harbor, protect, and promote her.

22. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    Well, gawsh. *L*

    Anyhow, I’d like to request that you consider studying the possibility that there are subtle, insidious, and “polite” forms of genocide all around us that, for lack of a better term, I’ll call “genteel-ocide”.

    By this I mean devastating small things, like what often happens behind closed doors in school admissions, workplace hiring processes, and school advising offices, whereby “undesirable” demographics have their failures attributed to malgenics…

23. 
    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    Really, I reckon you are right about the subjects. The fact of the matter is, I got the grades, sat in the front row, was there every day, but struggled, and nothing really stuck in my head. I don’t reckon I truly learned anything. I’ve noticed many students in AP courses, but, at least those I personally knew, already knew the material beforehand from prior private schooling or had been gifted in the subject area but were not particularly well versed in other courses such as mathematics.

24. 
    On May 25, 2010 TheLogicJunkie says:

    Also, keep in mind that I’m not trying to undermine the thought of your innate intelligence — what I’m really trying to do is determine the extent to which you went through a process of disillusionment over what you thought was your current prowess, and then had it rebuilt into truer, actual prowess.

    I personally prefer Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of intelligence, whereby it is a skill like any other, which is developed ONLY from the bottom-most fundamentals, upward.

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    On May 25, 2010 sugarbabyemina says:

    That is right. Oops my comment did cut off. I was saying that the professor took an interest in my tale and has me do genocide presentations for his political science classes every semester. Fortunately, I have an eBay business and work at a warehouse to be able to afford tuition debt free. Keep up the excellent work! I’m about to buy your book really!