Michael H Goldhaber wrote: > 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:
I never meant to imply that some people are inferior because they lack the proper background to attend university. We each have valuable skills and talents to contribute to society. The skilled mechanic, the welder, even the trash collector are all valuable members of society. However, the skills for each position are different from that of the independent thinking which college is supposed to teach. We need thinkers and leaders, but we also need trained artisans, and all should be well compensated and satisfied in their positions. I only meant that many people who choose college would be better served, and better serve society, with a different type of post-secondary education. -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Einsenhower # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]