Keith Hart wrote:
It is these places [some universities] that are the guardians of
intellectual lifeThey cannot teach the qualities that people need in
politics and business. Nor can they teach culture and wisdom, any more
than theologians teach holiness, or philosophers goodness or
Keith Hart writes:
Whatever we think of the country's present government, it has
a lot to do with the fact that America is the world's most
advanced experiment in democracy. To call such a society
anti-intellectual is perverse.
To call America the world's most advanced experiment in democracy is
It is these places [some universities] that are the guardians of
intellectual lifeThey cannot teach the qualities that people need in
politics and business. Nor can they teach culture and wisdom, any more
than theologians teach holiness, or philosophers goodness or sociologists
a blueprint
Dan Wang wrote:
To state the obvious, then: It is no coincidence that the dramatic rise in
tuition costs (at all the different types of higher education
institutions, really) rolled in at about the same time that the American
university experience reformulated as a largely predictable exercise
All these attacks on intellectualism seem to my partially valid, but
generally a little too easy. The same can be said for generalizations
about the American school system. The US higher education system is
extraordinarily vast and modulates depending on its structure. They are
not all
Some of the items in this thread are quite disturbing, such as the thought
that many people are insufficiently intelligent to go to university, but
should rather go to polytechnics or the like:
Public universities are packed with students who simply should not be in
college. This policy
that
Nato Thompson:
For intellectuals. I suspect this issue is larger than the classroom.
It is. For a full accounting of anti-intellectualism, I think we'd have
to go back thousands of years. At least as far back as Plato, who in
his dialogue Theatetus tells what was already an ancient story
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New Media Education and Its Discontent
there's something hilarious about the proposition that, were it not
for andrew jackson -- author, they say, of the quintessentially
all-american 'OK' ('oll korekt!') -- this country would be more
inclined
New Media Education and Its Discontent
³ home are the people for whom I take responsibility.²
--Vilem Flusser in ³The Freedom of the Migrant²
The Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser wrote much about the exile freely
taking responsibility. I am in the fortunate position to enjoy
