Hi Billy, > On Jan 27, 2015, at 12:45 PM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > For a long time, the pushback to that philosophy was productive. It forced > higher education to be dynamic, to respond to conditions beyond campus, says > Mr. Roth, who is president of Wesleyan University and sits on the AAC&U > board. People understood that liberal learning served individuals, regardless > of their jobs, as well as society at large. That’s no longer true, he says. >
They don’t discuss the elephant in the room. Higher education is largely optimized to produce (and protect) professors. Getting a meaningful philosophy of life (or career) is mostly an accident. :-P — Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
