Victor Davis Hanson
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2,022 appearances
16 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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Well, we only have three choices.
We either have to lower the amount of work required because we have too many students that weren't prepared, or we have to introduce new courses or the favored route.
We're going to change our grading.
So Yale gives 80% of A's.
Stanford's about 70% of A's.
And then that's not the...
the end of it.
Then you get people in Silicon Valley, you meet and they'll say, hey, Victor, you know, this is really weird.
Stanford used to have the SAT.
They dropped it for four years.
And I've noticed that coders are people in computer science, are people in
the humanities, I would rather hire someone from Southern Methodist or Georgia Tech or SMU than I would Stanford graduate anybody the last four years.
And then you say, well, why?
Because they don't have the compositional skills or the training that other people from these Southern universities do of all colors, nothing to do with race.
And more importantly, when they come to workforce, they go right to HR and complain.
And I would rather have somebody who was quiet and qualified rather than somebody who had to complain about me or my company or working conditions.
She's got to twist it.
I can tell you that because for 21 years, I'd have graduates in classics from not a competitive school, a California State University school, and they wanted to go to the Ivy League.
So they had to have a greater degree, a master's degree in classics.
And more importantly, when I would...
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