March 20, 2005

Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo!

via Green Knight

Via Canadian Cynic, Russell Jacoby has a great piece in The Nation about the new breed of crybaby conservatives, and their war against academia...read on

This is what happens when you stop viewing education as an investment that society makes in itself, and start viewing it as a product purchased by individual student/consumers. Students begin to expect their instructors to cater to them and their preconceptions, rather than challenging them to think beyond what they already know (or think they know)

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