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Why?

Why the dickens, not? 

Sunday, October 24, 2004

Paradise Lost

Yesterday, I had the misfortune of being associated with an Exhibition on Higher Education; degrees for sale more like. The Degree Mongers. I detest them. It seems I've been sheltered from this particular depravity, till now, for which I am thankful. My jeremiads against education have so far been limited to

a) the slow encroachment of training onto the hallowed province of education.
b) it's propensity toward glorification and indoctrination of the status quo

The rot while possibly running deeper, is surely a more uglier rot than i have ever imagined. It made me sick to the lowest of my entrails to see the depths to which these... these villains would stoop to get their buck. That which is birthed by tainted means; can it even aspire to the ideal.

Education, properly a drawing forth, implies not so much the communication of knowledge as the discipline of the intellect, the establishment of the principles, and the regulation of the heart. - Websters.

Maybe the cathedrals of academia are beyond this ideal. Maybe we should look elsewhere. Maybe even revert back to the days of apprenticeship, when bureaucracy was unheard of. Maybe we should just look to ourselves.

urped by gumz @ 1:46 PM


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