Criticizing the Criticizer

I sit and watch around three to five hours a week of YouTube lectures.  Often, after opening up for questions.....you have these 20-year old types stand up and open up with criticism on the lecture guy and it's the left-wing versus right-wing type of dramatic situation.  The 'kid' wants to make some melodramatic moment for his 'cause'.

In 99-percent of these breathtaking moments....the student basically drives a 'stake' through their own argument and you end up watching some theatrical defense of a fifth-grade kid wearing adult clothing.

So I often sit there wondering....the kid has at least a year or two of college....maybe even closing in on four years of university time.  Can't he sit and develop his basic argument and present it with a fact or two, and avoid stupid commentary, or protest-like singing, or yelling enough to shut down the lecture?

A lot of these university kids have tuition and living costs that amount to $25,000 a year and you would sit there and think about the limited capability that they are getting out of this deal.  A hundred years ago....debate was an actual class and you had to show some marginal skills in this....to graduate.

After you've seen enough of these, you just shake your head.  They obviously want to shut down the lecture....there's too much information flowing from the lecture guy.  There are ideas being suggested which 'just blow the mind' of the kid trying to oppose or hinder the hecture.  You can sense that they'd really like to stop this lecture chatter because some people in the audience might fall for this stuff and move away from the kid's beliefs. 

As each one of the episodes occur....you kinda wonder.....if the kid realizes his dramatic failure at this lecture, does he go back to his professor 'mentor'....the guy giving him the basic for his arguments, and admit failure....or does he just go to the routine of marking his criticism of the lecture as a 'win'? 

It's a sad thing to consider, but we are perhaps pumping out idiot university graduates, with huge debts, and debate skills are still that of a fifth-grade kid.