Muppet Education

Timothy Birdnow

College degrees are pretty much fictitious now anyway; why not have a muppet give the commencement speech?

Disney’s Kermit the Frog Invited as Commencement Speaker at University of Maryland

I mean, if you are teaching things like Gender Studies or Womyns Studies (sic) you may as well have a make-believe commencement speaker to match the silliness of the courses themselves.

I remember back in 2000 when Old Dominion invited Fred Rogers to be their commencement speaker. Roger aka "Mr. Rogers" was a highly successful businessman and entertainer and not a fictional character, yet the students were furious at being treated like children with a children's show host representing their years at OD. I felt bad for Rogers but understood why the students were angry about it. They felt insulted, as if their acccomplishment was a childish thing, like pooping in the potty or shedding their diapers.

Now we have actual puppets being commencement speakers! Where are the protests?

According to the article:

Honoring a dead alum is fine but insulting live graduates is another thing entirely. This is an insult to these students.

Of course they call it the ivory tower because it's separated from reality, and universities have become nothing but dream worlds, obsessed with their own kookie ideas and at odds with reality. So a puppet may well represent reality to them.

This shows just how unserious and irrelevant higher education has become since the Left has gained complete dominance over the entire system. It's now the children's hour in most universities. "Safe spaces", counseling for depression from Trump's election, pronoun panic, etc. all show the juvenilization of higher education and that kids are being treated like adults less and less. It was inevitable given the smothering coddling we've seen of young people, starting out with participation trophies and the like and following them through their lives.

In my opinion the university system is irretrivably broken and deserves to die. This is just more proof of that assertion.

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