On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:34:57 -0800
michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Moskowitz, Ron. 1970. "Professor Sees Peril in Education." San
> Francisco Chronicle (30 October).
>  Governor Reagan's aide Roger Freeman, who later served as President
> Nixon's educational policy advisor, while he was working at the time
> for California Governor Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign, commented
> on Reagan's education policy:  "We are in danger of producing an
> educated proletariat.  That's dynamite!  We have to be selective about
> who we allow to through higher education. If not, we will have a large
> number of highly trained and unemployed people."

The concern was quite misplaced, at least as phrased. The 'trained'
are -- as the term suggests -- a good deal more docile than the 
untrained. The extraordinary thing we're seeing now is 
that *even* the trained are becoming restless. 
 
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Michael J. Smith
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I'll get *you*, Wilson,
and your little Dawkins too!
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