What students from 1958 thought about college....interesting.

It went to hell by 1973 also.

Back then when college was much cheaper, and much more important, many fairly bright kids didn't see the point. The teacher, and the girl to his right, had to harangue them about the "value of education" and try to get them on a guilt trip, which they didn't agree to.

The guy who wanted to be a "dirt farmer" probably got on his land, figured out how to make things work, and retired with millions of dollars.

Now college is overwhelmingly expensive, and we have many alternative ways to learn things, every moron is demanding to go to college. Obama said we should send all the morons to college as if that will change them.

If only kids with 120+ IQs were encouraged to go to college today we'd be a lot better off.

Yeah, but I think it would be much more difficult to screw up society if professors were only able to attempt their indoctrination on the top 10% of students.

Can you find a recent video on this subject?

The problem is business owners want a degree for everything out there today, while in the past, you could get in the door without one and they would train you up the ranks.

They wanted something for nothing as this is the result.

1970 is when the number of business lobbyists jumped from 200 offices in Washington DC to 2500 today.

You don't gotta go that far, even 80s and 90s were still good college years, anything before the social media era

Yep, that was the beginning of what has become the socialist indoctrination camps, AKA, college campuses.

And not a single cell phone rang to interrupt them...amazing.

This was 1958, and I thought it was interesting that the general attitude seemed to be that most young women went to college to find a husband and then got down to their REAL job which was staying home and raising the kids. At the time, most women DID stay home unless they filled the "traditional" jobs like nurse, teacher, secretary or store clerk. And even THOSE positions were apt to be somewhat temporary, putting the woman right back into the home. The one fellow seemed legitimately concerned that if a woman had a career she'd have to be gone from home all day almost as if it would affect her mentally or emotionally to be physically absent.

Of course, you have to remember too that in 1958 the "day care" arrangements would most likely be a stay-at-home neighbor! Most men made enough to support their families, and a divorced woman was a rarity and looked upon as somewhat sexually available whether she actually was or not.

Women working as a "have to" situation didn't really get going until the 70's when everything started getting so expensive that it took both incomes to pay the mortgage and the bills. Until then, the woman's salary usually ended up in a savings account or paying for the kids' annual trip to summer camp, a new car for the family, or trip to Disneyland. Or SOMEWHERE. It seemed like everyone I knew was gone for at least a week or two during the summer.

At least, that's how it was in MY neighborhood !

There was a video out a few years ago which showed how the Educational System was designed to make compliant, hive-minded factory workers who would have enough intelligence to understand how to do a job but not enough to really think for themselves or get defiant.

Maybe, but you have to look at it from the perspective of that time, most industry was growing exponentially and encouraging the top 10% to excel by getting a college education made sense. A college degree meant something and would keep these kids in well paying jobs for the rest of their days. It's not like they were telling every retard to get a degree in women's studies or whatever makes them feel good like they are today. This was back when we wanted the best and brightest to be doctors, engineers,etc. there were no affirmative action quotas.

What was THAT all about??!! One railroad engine going 100 miles an hour and blowing its' horn. Did I miss something?

Interesting fact I just read in Wiki. Fluoride was added to the majority of city water supplies in the United States in 1960... two years after these folks graduated. Hmmm.

This would explain some thing....don't ya think??


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For a lot of you here, these kids were your Grandparents.

For me, they were my babysitters or my friends' older brothers and sisters. This was how things were in the 50's and (at least for us IN the 50's) there was no indication that anything was going to change.

All very interesting and informative replies on this thread. To those of us who lived during those years (moms stayed at home, dads worked with pride that they could support their families, et al), I would like add that by the time I graduated high school in 1973....

...I knew that the educational (and social/family) system was broken. And that from there on out, schools would be social and political indoctrination training camps for upcoming generations. Families were to be torn apart. The babyboomers were becoming hippies and drugs and disharmonious music destroyed any sense of their upbringing.

And, unfortunately, I was right. ALL planned.

If you look at the yearbooks up until the 1970s, you will see well-groomed and mature young adults. No tattoos, no hardware on their bodies, no sagging pants - the whole catastrophe.

I remember how serious the teachers were - no time for foolishness. You learned the material you were presented with or were put back. And we all knew how to write (cursive). Very important.

The quality of such education had to be destroyed of course. You cannot have generations of people who think for themselves and care for themselves through healthy habits. And thus, the NWO took care of that and what we see today is the results.

I have seen and experienced these cultural changes and although I cannot go back to the past, I have the pictures and memories of when America was in its golden age; although not perfect by any means, it was 100% better than today.

I want my country back

I would like to see the follow-up, where are these people now, and how did their lives go?

And they expect US to pay for it! Portland State University just announced that they were raising their tuition by 11 per cent. And then they had the nerve to demand that the State (We The Taxpayers) give them a bunch more money as well. Not "instead". But "In Addition To".

Meanwhile PSU professors push the Marxist agenda, the LGQTUVWXYZ issues, all the identity politics crapola. The students talk about how "unsafe" they feel and yet at the same time demonstrated loudly and voted overwhelmingly to have the Campus Police be UNARMED. For those of you who might not know, PSU is right in the heart of downtown Portland giving all sorts of people free access to the campus, some of whom a person might feel a lot better having an ARMED Campus Police officer show up in case of a midnight confrontation.

he says it's a WASTE for people not to go to college....in 1958 the Graduation rate was much much much higher than today AND a HS grad back then could ACTUALLY READ and DO MATH, unlike today....a HS grad in 1958 was on par with a 3rd College student today.



Bill Gates, Zuckerturd, HENRY FORD all non college grads...

FOLLOW your ambition if that includes college great, if not great.

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... but as the labor market tightens the EMPLOYERS might just have to take what they can get! ...
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When I graduated from College I had ZERO DEBT because it was before STUDENT LOAN GUARANTEES....so Prof's made about 80K a year....now with GOV LOANS Prof's make 250K and DO NOT TEACH, they have Grad students that make 50K teaching...so you are paying for 3 or MORE teachers for ONE CLASS.


GET RID OF STUDENT LOANS and FORCE SCHOOLS to COMPETE.

Back in the late 50’s and 60’s I remember the dentist gave us little kids all fluoride pills to chew and swallow!

Jesus is and was and is to come, Chip, you can bet on it!

Notice the "educator" PUSHING for college along with the chick with the butch haircut. "No knowledge is ever wasted." BS. There was a load of stuff I was forced to memorize in public school and I've had zero need for it. She wants to try things out by taking various courses? Yeah, have fun paying off that debt load, sweetie.

A woman's BEST role is STILL being a wife, mother, and homemaker. Done.

MEANWHILE, IN 2019...

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I watched this video without being surprised at all. I lived through that era. Also, a lot of it struck me as topics that I'd think would be relevant today, college, women in the workforce, etc. The only differences would be the age of marriage back then and the ratio of kids expecting to go to college.

What's surprising to me is the comments I see here and at YouTube about how much things have changed. I've been out of the USA for a long time. Last time I went home was about 15-years ago, and everything still seemed normal.

I didn't realize things had changed so much in the last 15 years that people are surprised a conversation like this could ever occur. I admit to being somewhat confused. People cannot have a civil discussion anymore?

I've seen a serious degradation in civility on the internet, but have real-life, face-to-face communications become that way as well?

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wow the year i was born. Those students are all RACISSES according to todays standards.