Thomas Sowell can be a pretty pungent preacher at times, but I think he's basically correct on this one, as the decline of Antioch College has made clear.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/academic_intimidation.html
Random Reflections on Higher Education by a Dean on Sabbatical
About Me
- Ed Ericson
- A former history professor and now college administrator, I started using this blog primarily to catalog my various reflections during a 2007 sabbatical.
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- Zen and the Art of Administration?
- The Seeing Tongue?
- How to handle pressure?
- Debating the increase in standardized testing
- Academic intimidation
- Campaign prognostications
- Spirituality in college students
- The Brain on Faith?
- The Growing Anti-Child Movement?
- The Future of Engineering Education?
- Instant Sex and the Demise of Romantic Love
- Debating the Death Penalty
- Loving and being good at your job not correlated?
- Academic freedom regarding evolution?
- The wisdom and folly of Schumpeter
- Another conservative critique of NCLB
- Another book on the PC University
- Does Class Size Matter?
- Divorce bad for the environment?
- The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivies?
- Does "The Golden Compass" Promote Atheism?
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