Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Raghu. There are many other people who never went to Ivy League schools who got excellent educations. The selectivity of the top-ranked schools means that the people they admit are people with the "right kind" of family background, aptitude, motivation, etc. But the point is that Harvard is a DIFFERENT KIND of scam from Phoenix U. Just like Goldman Sachs runs different swindles from Bernie Madoff. That's why Madoff went to jail while Blankfein continued doing "God's work". I never said Harvard was "just like" Phoenix. I said it was so a scam. Take responsibility for your own straw men, Raghu.
Do I know anyone personally that got ripped off by a for-profit scam university? Well, not that I know of. Does that really mean I don't know what I'm talking about? That's a pretty rigid epistemology. I also don't know anyone who was ripped off by Bernie Madoff or anyone who had their house foreclosed. And I never met Martin Feldstein or Larry Summers so I better keep my mouth shut on just about everything. You on the other hand evidently know them all personally. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:33 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What some (who I won't bother replying to) may rudely label a "rhetorical > > trick" is actually observation from experience of attending a doctoral > > program at an ivy league school where "bait and switch" was the order of > the > > day from administration and faculty... > > > So speak for yourself. There are lots of other people, many on this > list, who went to Ivy League institutions and got an excellent > education out of them. And there are hundreds of excellent scholars on > the faculty of these institutions. > > Do you know anyone who got ripped off by one of the for-profit scams? > I didn't think so. With all due respect, you have no idea what you are > talking about if you really think Harvard is a scam just like Phoenix. > -raghu. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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