On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:02 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Really? Going to college in the US today is analogous to getting > tortured in the Inquisition? > > Depends on the college, I suppose. Duke, I gather, is like > spending four years at Trimalchio's country place. But I'm > surprised to find such a profound misunderstanding of how > analogy works. A/B = C/D does not imply A = C. > You made an analogy. I pointed out that it was a really terrible analogy. Now you complain that analogy is not the same as identity? WTF? > I think what you're calling anti-intellectualism is in > fact something quite different, namely a critique of the > actually existing credential industry and particularly of > its hollow pretensions to reduce inequality. > You give your game away by using the term "credential industry". If you believe that all US educational institutions are nothing more than players in a "credential industry", then there is no point in continuing this discussion. You cannot argue with such silly caricatures. re: "pretensions to reduce inequality", I must object to your misrepresentation of what I said. I didn't say that education will reduce inequality. I said that universal access to a quality education is an essential part of reducing inequality. Decent universal access to healthcare is also an essential part of reducing inequality. Ditto for food, water, shelter, sanitation and the means to support oneself. Education is a necessary but not a sufficient condition all by itself. I thought all of this was too freaking obvious to have to spell out. I guess it is not. -raghu.
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