Comments | tubasteve9: Interesting rant... or maybe not

tubasteve9

Interesting rant... or maybe not

Aug 11, 2005 18:17

I know I take myself too seriously about things but perhaps I should rant for a bit. It's been a long time. This rant is basically a culmination of discussions I've had with Beth on the matter and an adaptation of some of the things she and I said, applied to college life and education in the US in general. Thanks Beth- for inspiration ( Read more... )

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I know you want Beth's comments. gummivenus August 12 2005, 16:13:47 UTC

Let's talk about practicality ; as much as you demonise 'Mr. 4.0 1600 Yale' , he is in fact required as one of the functioning cogs in the American machine. He is the accountant, the proctologist, the chemical engineer. Although emphasis on 'free thought' is a nice ideal for colleges, I don't feel it's necessarily something everyone should have to pursue. After all, for all you know they could have exercised their 'free thought' in coming to the decision to conform. I know we talked last night on the phone about hegemony and such, but I feel it may apply to these people to a great extent. By telling them that they should think a 'different' way, aren't you impugning about their right to free thought ? It's an interesting catch-22, not like the band , but still ( ... )

gummivenus August 12 2005, 16:16:08 UTC

Uh , I meant 'impugning upon '..my mom yelled at me to eat breakfast in the middle of typing this + I got sidetracked. ;]

tubasteve9 August 12 2005, 19:01:28 UTC

The problem is that those "functioning cogs in the American machine." Yes, I understand that one has the choice to decide whether or not to follow his own ideas or to accept convention and I'm not really critisizing either choice- I'm really attempting to say that Mr. 4.0 1600 Yale should be at a technical school that does lots of work in accounting and not in other things. I'm sure he'd be happier doing that than going and doing all these other liberal arts classes that he's forced to take and sleep through. It's double edged. I think the kids who aren't interested in a class are annoyed by the kids who are interested in the class- and vice versa. Maybe separate classes could solve that. Just speculation ( ... )