On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Exactly! I apologize for my rude initial response, but this is all I was trying to say. Sure at some level you can argue that every single institution in a capitalist society is corrupt at its root, but that kind of blanket statement is completely devoid of content. The fact is some institutions are far more egregious than others and it is important to make distinctions. There is no moral equivalence between a Harvard and a Phoenix. And a Harvard is not like a Goldman Sachs either. I cannot think of anything good ever coming out of GS. On the other hand, Harvard produces a lot of excellent scholarship. Especially in the context of the discussion we were having about college costs. The costs of attending Harvard (or any real college) are going up for reasons that have nothing to do with the costs of sending more victims to Phoenix. Conflating the two is just extremely unhelpful. That's all. > 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. Ok fair enough, but surely even you have to admit that someone who got ripped of by Phoenix is in a very different situation from someone who went to Harvard. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
