Ever the anti-intellectual, Fox News host (and man who Fox News actively says shouldn’t be believed) Tucker Carlson said in an interview with Outkick.com, a website that primarily covers sports, that college is a waste of time and people worsen themselves by attending.
“There is this idea that college improves your worth. Where is the evidence of that?” Carlson said, as he’s just asking questions and too lazy to read the available research himself. “I’m sure that hard sciences do. If you’re an engineer or you are in medical school, you would learn discrete information, actual facts that you can use and that you need to know in order to join the profession that you want to join. But for kids like me who go in for liberal arts education, I believe it diminishes you.”
Carlson said that he actively encouraged his four children to skip college and go directly into a life of leisure living off Daddy’s money, leveraging his grifting to their financial benefit. Having them attend college and learn things “terrifies [him].”
“I pushed for all four of my children not to go to college, all four. Think about that. My fourth is about to enter college now. I said to all four of them: ‘Please, don’t do this.’ I told them, ‘I’ll take the money we’re gonna spend in college — we were blessed to have, we saved money for them — and figure out something more interesting to do with this.; But, to my shame, all of them went. And they’re independent, smart, and freethinkers. But the pressure, the social pressure to conform and take this path — which is so clearly a dead end for so many kids — it terrifies me.”
Carlson’s kids apparently aren’t so smart as he imagines, and would likely fall into a path of self-destruction, he mentioned. Carlson himself has recently called into question his own intellect by bragging in his college yearbook that he was a member of two likely-fictitious anti-LGBTQ groups he made up to sound like he was popular.
“I’m not even factoring in drug addiction, alcoholism, and chlamydia. Do you know what I mean?” Carlson ranted. There are all the other costs of college before even the financial cost. There’s the spiritual cost. Are you more secure? Are you more curious? Are you braver? Are you better educated than you were when you entered? And for most people, of course, the answer is no. So, why are we doing this I think everyone should opt out, except people with very specific goals. I don’t believe in the system at all. Again, just to restate how much I don’t believe it: my own children, the most important thing in my life, I counseled them all to skip it. That’s how I feel.”