So it begins

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Iowa legislature creating a new committee for higher education.

Iowa House Republicans add committee focused on higher education

Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds accepts honor for the state’s tax policy

www.thegazette.com

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

If republicans had their way, college would not exist.

 

[goldmom]

If republicans had their way, college would not exist.

What an intelligent sounding thing to say.

 

[Aardvark86]

Are you suggesting that a legislature shouldn't have an oversight committee focused on education? (That would certainly be news at the federal level).

To be sure, there will be some wacky things considered through a legislative committee like this. But they are a legislature, and it is in fact their job to consider them. To be honest, if I were doing a blue sky exercise with respect to public higher education where no idea was off the table, I'd spend a fair bit of time thinking about whether a public university is, or should be, really designed and administered to be the kind of institution described in St. John Henry Neuman's "The Idea of a University", or rather whether its public character should direct it to more mundane and practical types of learning and training to support the society's values and needs. I might ultimately conclude that publics and privates should be no different...but I'm not sure about that sitting here today.

 

[GES4]

Iowa legislature creating a new committee for higher education.

Iowa House Republicans add committee focused on higher education

Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds accepts honor for the state’s tax policy

www.thegazette.com

Nobody asked these crackers to change the University of Iowa. Let them go to Ames.

 

[WadeLookingbill]

This all leads Iowa to the same place...

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

What an intelligent sounding thing to say.

I think it's more sad than intelligent.

 

[Rifler]

I think it's more sad than intelligent.

Neither apply,.. Inaccurate would be more like it.

 

[mnole03]

I’d trust the people who’ve taken Iowa from a top 20 public university to #46 in the most recent US News Rankings.

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

Neither apply,.. Inaccurate would be more like it.

All the data I've read indicates that the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Do you disagree?

 

[Rifler]

All the data I've read indicates that the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Do you disagree?

I would laugh at any data source that attempted to correlate education with voting pattern,.. So I would disagree.

 

[fivecardstud14]

Nobody asked these crackers to change the University of Iowa. Let them go to Ames.

@Rifler thinks this guy is “sneaky athletic.”

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

I would laugh at any data source that attempted to correlate education with voting pattern,.. So I would disagree.

Really? Why would that be funny to you?

 

[Rifler]

Really? Why would that be funny to you?

Not funny,... dismissive.

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

Not funny,... dismissive.

Fair enough. I've heard there are some people who still believe the earth is flat.

Different strokes for different folks.

 

[artradley]

I would laugh at any data source that attempted to correlate education with voting pattern,.. So I would disagree.

That would be an opinion based on emotion, not fact. All polls and studies indicate that higher education, for some time now, corresponds to voting Democratic.

Also, it appears in recent years more engaged and politically aware people vote for Democrats, while people who pay little attention to matters of government vote Republican. It’s a challenge that Democratic strategists are struggling with.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

I would laugh at any data source that attempted to correlate education with voting pattern,.. So I would disagree.

So you disagree in advance and wouldn’t believe any article or study that would show that?

Love it.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Maybe a standardized test by major administered across all students in the country would be a good way to measure a schools worth.

I doubt that kind of clarity would be desired.

 

[TarponSpringsNole]

So you disagree in advance and wouldn’t believe any article or study that would show that?

Love it.

Maybe he’s part of the 60% that read at a 6th grade level or less. 🤷‍♀️

 

[gohawks50]

Maybe a standardized test by major administered across all students in the country would be a good way to measure a schools worth.

I doubt that kind of clarity would be desired.

Do you have a theory on what the results would be?

 

[artradley]

So you disagree in advance and wouldn’t believe any article or study that would show that?

Love it.

Conservatism is a faith-based movement these days. If they feel it’s true, it’s true.

 

[GOHOX69]

I’d trust the people who’ve taken Iowa from a top 20 public university to #46 in the most recent US News Rankings.

Iowa is basically a junior college. Soon it will be worse than that.

 

[Tom Paris]

Iowa legislature creating a new committee for higher education.

Iowa House Republicans add committee focused on higher education

Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds accepts honor for the state’s tax policy

www.thegazette.com

This is a fvcking joke. Nothing positive will come of this.

 

[Tom Paris]

I would laugh at any data source that attempted to correlate education with voting pattern,.. So I would disagree.

Spoken like a Republican.

 

[Hawkstate1]

All the data I've read indicates that the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Do you disagree?

The argument can be made that the more educated someone is the more detached from reality and less intelligent they become.....and therefore more likely to participate in groupthink and vote for democrats.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

All the data I've read indicates that the more educated someone is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Do you disagree?

Not at all. I know people that have college degrees that voted Republican and others that voted democrat.
The only thing you believe is that people that voted democrat have college degrees, which isn’t true either as I know people without college degrees that voted democrat.

 

[Hawkstate1]

This is a fvcking joke. Nothing positive will come of this.

OMG the people's representatives overseeing the education of children. Why can't we leave education to the pedophiles and the educrats, what are we a democracy? Before you know it the parents will have a say in the education of their children......where will it end? Will they end gender studies at the universities? Oh the humanity.

 

[Aardvark86]

I don't think there's any doubt that that D affinity and higher education degree attainment correlate positively. But i'm not sure how you'd assess any correlation between party affinity on the one hand, and actual intelligence, wisdom, or judgment on the other.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

This is a fvcking joke. Nothing positive will come of this.

The real joke is you are a teacher most likely sharing your opinions with kids. What a joke!

 

[GES4]

Not at all. I know people that have college degrees that voted Republican and others that voted democrat.
The only thing you believe is that people that voted democrat have college degrees, which isn’t true either as I know people without college degrees that voted democrat.

Don’t let statistics get in the way of your anecdotes.

 

[gohawks50]

I don't think there's any doubt that that D affinity and higher education degree attainment correlate positively. But i'm not sure how you'd assess any correlation between party affinity on the one hand, and actual intelligence, wisdom, or judgment on the other.

People with a higher IQ and favorable genes for intelligence are more likely to be liberal​

 

[Aardvark86]

People with a higher IQ and favorable genes for intelligence are more likely to be liberal​

Oh, I dunno if that is or isn't true statistically, but either way, I tend to think that the more useful rule is the old yarn "If you're conservative when you're young, you've got no heart, and if you're liberal when you're old you've got no brain."

 

[Hawkstate1]

People with a higher IQ and favorable genes for intelligence are more likely to be liberal​

It is amusing that the left finds solace in their rejection by America by trying to convince themselves that they are the smart voters. Evidence suggests otherwise. I mean that Elon Musk guy must be a ****ing idiot.

 

[LunchBox50]

It is amusing that the left finds solace in their rejection by America by trying to convince themselves that they are the smart voters. Evidence suggests otherwise. I mean that Elon Musk guy must be a ****ing idiot.

You think Trump getting 50% of the vote is a "rejection by America" of the Democrats?

 

[goldmom]

Neither apply,.. Inaccurate would be more like it.

Well no shit. I must’ve forgotten the sarcasm emoji. 😂😉

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

Not at all. I know people that have college degrees that voted Republican and others that voted democrat.
The only thing you believe is that people that voted democrat have college degrees, which isn’t true either as I know people without college degrees that voted democrat.

That's the difference between anecdotal evidence and actual data.

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

The argument can be made that the more educated someone is the more detached from reality and less intelligent they become.....and therefore more likely to participate in groupthink and vote for democrats.

You can argue anything you want. Doesn't mean it's supported in fact/data.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

People with a higher IQ and favorable genes for intelligence are more likely to be liberal​

This is entirely false.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289614001081

You can find dozens of studies that will all show higher IQ skewing towards conservativism. Liberals have a tendency to have higher degrees of education.

 

[NoWokeBloke]

Anyone who is a Dem today is borderline retarded.

 

[AuroraHawk]

I hope upon hope upon hope that there is a majority in either the Iowa Senate or the Iowa House that looks closely at The New College of Florida and applies the lessons that can be learned from that cesspool of a situation.