Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: really off topic funding schools
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:07:40 -0400

Are student's complaining? Education has in large part become what 
students wanted it to become. There are a few small colleges that offer 
a classical curriculum, but they are very small because few want to 
attend.

Dangerous? To Whom?

Allan


On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Matthew Powell wrote:
> Depends on your viewpoint. To commodify and neatly package education - 
> as I see occurring at every campus I visit or have friends who attend - 
> is dangerous. Higher education is rarely a venue for learning, or for 
> independent thought these days, it's job training for thousands a year.

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