tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7550466009575656322..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Illiberal UniversitiesStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81810922551075322702011-09-27T08:24:09.706-07:002011-09-27T08:24:09.706-07:00This won't actually have effect, I suppose lik...This won't actually have effect, I suppose like this.contactos en madridhttp://www.encontactos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54503542565510198682011-08-14T10:01:40.320-07:002011-08-14T10:01:40.320-07:00Dennis says:
"My hypothesis is that a lot of...Dennis says:<br /><br />"My hypothesis is that a lot of students have been told that they MUST go to college, but don't really know why they're there or what they need to accomplish. Kind of like members of a badly-officered draftee army, in peacetime."<br /><br />I had no idea why I had to be in college or what I was supposed to accomplish there - and that was back in the 1990s.<br /><br />Worst five years of my life.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89578889084872881832011-08-13T11:35:47.456-07:002011-08-13T11:35:47.456-07:00It is interesting that in Alan Bloom's "C...It is interesting that in Alan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" he diagnoses almost exactly what has transpired in academe. "Bloom goes on to charge liberalism with vulgarizing the noble ideas of freedom and equality, and he offers brilliantly acerbic description of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement, which he sees as products of this process of vulgarization." Norman Podhoretz.<br />The open mind has morphed into the closed mind that we see exhibited in academe. Interesting that feminism has become so vulgar and debasing to women as a whole.<br />Dinesh D'Souza does an excellent job of writing about illiberal universities in his book, "Illiberal Education." Why, I wonder, do most of these people always seem to be running towards being what they say they are running away from?Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71591620057592962222011-08-13T09:37:48.046-07:002011-08-13T09:37:48.046-07:00Also, the hookup culture apparently has a great de...Also, the hookup culture apparently has a great deal to do with alcohol. I saw statistics somewhere, maybe on Susan's blog, to the effect that a very high % of college students--of BOTH sexes--are drunk or pretty close to drunk when having sexual encounters. (What's the point of doing it if you can't even remember it in the morning?)<br /><br />The question that interests me is why such a high % of college students want to be inebriated most of their out-of-class time. I think it goes beyond youthful high spirits. Someone observed that "happiness is that moment we would prefer to non-existence," yet excessive drinking offers a pretty good simulation of the latter.<br /><br />My hypothesis is that a lot of students have been told that they MUST go to college, but don't really know why they're there or what they need to accomplish. Kind of like members of a badly-officered draftee army, in peacetime.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-46093208916723894422011-08-13T08:47:53.910-07:002011-08-13T08:47:53.910-07:00To raise the ante, what sort of person wants to go...To raise the ante, what sort of person wants to go into university teaching these days. Or even high school teaching.<br /><br />Teachers have enormous power over children. Their grades can make or break a child's future. How easy is it to teach children the dogmas of political correctness and force them to believe it lest they get downgraded.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55729383834234502362011-08-13T08:33:33.862-07:002011-08-13T08:33:33.862-07:00What sort of person chooses to become a university...What sort of person chooses to become a university administrator, especially in the current environment?<br /><br />Even before the rise of malignant political correctness, I would doubt that *either* the most talented academics *or* the most talented executives would have chosen this career path...obviously, there were/are some exceptions. And with today's climate, it seems unlikely that any individual with spirit, initiative, independence, and self-respect would want to have anything to do with administration at a typical university.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com