Michael Keaney wrote: >... Conservatives like F. A. Hayek and Leo Strauss have also bemoaned the elevation of technique at the expense of theory and analysis. While their contributions are hardly the first port of call for subscribers to this list, there is clearly a sizeable number of folks concerned with the decline of scholarship resulting from excessive technocracy. ...< I must say that one reason I survive is because Catholic (Jesuit) colleges like the one that employs me have a greater tolerance of those who emphasize scholarship over technique, the big picture over the little, etc. > I like C. Wright Mills's clarification of the liberal education as liberating. < what is that statement? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!