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Posted on 03/07/2006 1:11:14 AM PST by XHogPilot
"Educators" have decided, it's the tuition paying student that will have to pay the sacrifice of quality education to enable the professors to pursue research interests...and, of course, society pays as well when it must integrate poorly educated university graduates.
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Thomas Sowell bump!
'Better than nice'. . .
Hope the 'educated ear' at Harvard and elsewhere, can hear it. . .
There is a far-reaching wisdom - and warning here which speaks to America's future. . .it is not just the Mother's hand anymore, that rocks the cradle. . .
There are arguments on both sides. High points in human inquiry featured independant teachers supportd by students as in Socrates and 14th century Paris. Institutionalization and formal curricula can be big mames for make-work efforts by otherwise mediocre faculties.
Sowell at his best.
When an alien vision prevails we have not only lost the faith we have been overthrown from within.
Can we run Thomas for President? Huh? Huh? Can we?
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Sowell speaks!
For sure. . .and well and good for those 'in time' or 'high times'. . .but a tradition certainly not carried by a majority representing Education today.
Instead we find an intellectual climate that favors a political elitism that not only borders. . .but more often, crosses the border to an intellectual and political tyranny that stands in total opposition to honest - fair and reasoned - inquiries into 'truth'. . .and a tyranny, of course, that excludes any educational framework for exploring values/virtue or other 'notions' of personal/social or community ideals.
No Socratic 'humble pride' for these individuals.
Rather we see what appears as an arrogant and intellecutaul false pride exhibited those who live in the higher eschelons of Education. . .as they determinedly move their profession further away from any and all, traditions of excellence.
I am reading Horowitz's The Professors, and it is shocking. However, I also sat in faculty meetings in the eighties where we strategized about just needing arm bodies in classes to keep our jobs
Hah-hah-hah. Your'e so funny.
This site, all of us, and even Thomas Sowell is so far from their horizon of consideration that it is not even realistic to think they would read it, or even understand it if they did.
Whew! You have certainly got your work cut out for you! Good luck on that!
1. Would he consent?
2.How many supporters can you round up?
3.He can run, but he will not be elected without approval from the people in charge, so no.
Too bad, though. He'd be good at it.
That's why, when National Review came out with it's list of top colleges, it also listed those colleges which are now in the "Academic Gulag", and Harvard was one of them for precisely the reason mentioned by Dr. Sowell.
This will only last as long as students vie heavily to get into these so called "top schools". If students went for other colleges, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton might slowly start to get their acts together.
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