Questioning the Mission of College

Questioning the Mission of College

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/bruni-questioning-the-missionof-college.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

"I'd sound yet another alarm. Scratch the surface of some of the efforts to reform state universities and you find more than just legitimate qualms about efficiency and demands for accountability. You find the kind of indiscriminate anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism popular among more than a few right-wing conservatives."
In other words, If you don't believe the existing administration of the universities are being driven by intellectually honest people, this may be an appropriate pushback.


"It's worth noting that Governor Perry has dismissed global warming as "one contrived, phony mess" and that many of the voices calling most loudly for change at the University of Texas are from the Tea Party fringe."

Therefore if global warming is assumed to be settled science, people not agreeing with that stance a anti intellectual. Otherwise, the university professors holding the claims of global warming, are frauds and anti scientific. "Settled science" is an oxymoron. Science is never settled, religion, on the other hand, can be considered settled. Descenders are heretics, to be punished severely.

"In other words there's some crude, petty politics in all of this. And as we tackle the very real, very to be important challenge of giving young Americans the best and most useful t possible in an era of dwindling resources, that's the last thing we need."

The current politics is liberal/progressive mindset versus the conservative mindset. It is clear the universities are promoters of the liberal mindset, with no intellectual inquire allowed.

What is needed is to rebalance the politics in the universities. The damage this process requires will be due to the rigidity on the left.


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