185. The End of Universities? | Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

DailyWire+

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Yeonmi Park's account of her experience at Columbia University is harrowing - as someone who had just arrived in the West after her escape from North Korea, the idea that she had to censor herself at a prestigious university like Columbia, or any university for that matter - which have historically been bastions of free thought is horrifying. Her experience serves as one example of just how far the Universities have deteriorated. Dr Peterson wanted to put this together because he still feels like it’s possible to save the Universities, but before that can happen, more people need to be aware of just how twisted they’ve become. Feel free to share and reference this video as some evidence and perspectives on the state of Western Universities.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. This is season 4, episode 39.
0:06.4	This episode is a bit different and with a special request from JBP. It's a compilation of guests
0:12.4	talking about the state of universities. Yenri Park's account of her experience at Columbia
0:17.3	University is harrowing. As someone who had just arrived to the west after her escape from North
0:22.6	Korea, the thought that she had to censor herself at a prestigious university like Columbia or any
0:28.3	university for that matter, which have historically been bashings of free thought, is horrifying. Her
0:33.6	experience serves as one example of just how far the universities have deteriorated. Dad wanted
0:38.8	to put this compilation together because he still feels like it's possible to save the universities.
0:43.5	But before that can happen, more people need to be aware of just how twisted they've become.
0:48.0	Feel free to share and reference this video as some evidence and people's perspectives on the
0:52.0	problem with universities. In my opinion, people should just go apprentice somewhere and start working
0:57.9	right away and just skip university. You can learn everything online for free. However,
1:02.6	my dad is the intellectual and he still thinks these institutions can be safe. And I hope he's right.
1:10.0	Enjoy the episode.
1:11.8	You came out of North Korea, then you went to university in South Korea. So you got to see that
1:17.2	culture as an outsider. And then you came to the United States and you got to see Columbia
1:22.8	University. So what did you conclude about your time in Columbia University? What were your impressions?
1:29.8	What do you have to say to people about what you saw? I know you oh my god. So that four years from
1:36.1	2016 to 2020, it was a complete madness. I became very pessimistic about the Western world
1:49.6	after university because like so literally in this humanity classes, even the economics,
1:57.6	I was studying economics for two years and later, human rights. The professor would send me
2:02.8	the like emails, oh this this class, we're going to cover this this, if it triggers you,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from DailyWire+, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of DailyWire+ and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.