Posted on 06/17/2007 2:43:15 PM PDT by madprof98
THIS is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing.
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The college’s motto, not in Latin or Greek but plain English, was coined by Horace Mann, its first president: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
For most of its history the institution lived up to that calling.
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Yet it was in the high tide of liberal activism that the college lost its way. . . . The 2,000 students at Antioch, living in a picture-pretty American village, provided a laboratory for various social experiments of the time.
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I moved into this sociological petri dish from a well-to-do suburb. Within my first week I twice had guns drawn on me, once in fun and once in a state of drunken for real by a couple of ex-cons whom one of my classmates, in the interest of breaking down class barriers, had invited to live with her.
My roommate began the tortured process of coming out of the closet, first by pursuing women relentlessly and then accepting the truth and allowing himself to be pursued by men.
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Antioch College became a rump where the most illiberal trends in education became entrenched. Since it is always easier to impose a conformist ethos on a small group than a large one, as the student body dwindled, free expression and freedom of thought were crushed under the weight of ultraliberal orthodoxy. By the 1990s the breadth of challenging ideas a student might encounter at Antioch had narrowed, and the college became a place not for education, but for indoctrination. Everyone was on the same page, a little to the left of The Nation in worldview.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Please.. This is an Op-Ed, not the newspaper staff writing this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch_College
"Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, one of six campuses of the Antioch University system . In June 2007, the University’s Board of Trustees announced that the college would be suspending operations as of July 2008, and would reopen in 2012 [2]"
LOL!
Reopen it as the Hillsdale of Ohio. Or just tear it down to save the planet.
Press release that didn’t get released:
“For those incoming freshmen we duped into believing you would graduate from Antioch (even though we knew we were closing after your first year), the yolks on you! Now that you’ve turned down those other schools that accepted you, you’re stuck giving us another year of tuition. Hope your freshman year is enjoyable. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!”
Sorry, Curly.
What are the conservative ones on the list? Just curious w/ a niece starting to look at this stuff.
Forget the Marxism, or rather don’t, but for a moment ask yourself: How many college graduates today can do long division? This is an indication of just what we’re in for as the Dark Ages wax.
“The ideals of social justice and economic fairness we embraced then are still right and deeply American.”
Goldfarb has some of his American history right, but he is blinded by his Liberalism.
America tried socialism at the Plymouth Colony. It killed about 40 percent of them in less than 18 months.
For the Goldfarbs and others who like socialism, communism, ad nauseam - consider Governor Bradford’s words regarding the starving winter at Plymouth Colony.
In 1623 he wrote, “This communism was nearly our undoing”.
Note to Goldfarb: Social justice and socialism are different.
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