WOW! Just WOW! Long. Compelling. Victor David Hanson.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/01/from-icon-to-just-a-con/
From Icon to Just a Con
Victor Davis Hanson
FTA:
Yes, we studied “mere” facts—dates, names, grammar, syntax, and formulae—but deliberately to ground or refute theories with evidence and to illustrate and enhance argumentation. Essays bled red by old masters of English prose style, whose efforts were aimed at ensuring students could communicate effectively but also with a sense of grace.
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In sum, the damage that the modern university has wrought has now outweighed its once positive role.
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There were and are ways to save the university, but in classical Livian style the medicine is felt worse than the disease.
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The chance of reform? Zero.
Indebted students, many with largely worthless degrees, and few employment opportunities sufficient to repay their loans, have become a loyal progressive constituency. How odd that an entire generation, in psychologically and financially suspended animation, is seen as useful by the very politicos who created this labyrinth of exploitation in the first place.
Great Read!