But this isn’t a joke: RAZE HARVARD. That would be a start.

No, no. Save the buildings. We can use them for something worthwhile.

Your entire exchange filled me with mirthful laughter. Thanks.

I just have one question, regarding this statement:

“As…a new Harvard graduate who will be pursuing his doctorate in economics, put it, “A lot of students have been asking the question: ‘We came to Harvard as freshmen to change the world, and we’re leaving to become investment bankers…’ ”

And my question is this: Who the hell goes to Harvard and majors in ECONOMICS in an effort to “change the world”?!? What’s he going to do? Be a guest speaker on CNN?

Sounds like a load of crap to me… or maybe someone watched too many 80s movies…

I think the overall problem with academia is this: it’s a culture of over-educated and under-experienced middle-class ego-centric social retards who would rather throw money and theories at a problem than actually solve it. They are too far removed from the experience of others to make any kind of lasting solution, because their superior education has purchased a convenient escape from the bulk of society. Meanwhile, it’s the starving artists and dropouts and homeless and blue-collar workers who are the backbone of society; the “un-educated” and “poor” are the people in the trenches. So the faculty at Harvard can blah blah blah all they like about going out and doing some good, and engaging in “public service” but it’s just a weekend or a “working vacation” to people who will never know what it’s like to worry about where the next rent check is coming from.

(there’s a message in here somewhere…)

But, hooray for the effort, Harvard- it’s a start.

Down with radical liberal academicians!

I am in full agreement with your last point about lesbianism in the middle ages. My main problem with the Ivy League is their unnecessary emphasis on lesbianism in the middle ages. Personally, I think lesbianism should be studied with the same significance young and old.

With just about everything else you’ve written I stand separate.

Enjoy the site.

Steve

“We’re in the business of graduating people who will make the world better in some way,” said Anthony Marx, Amherst’s president. “That’s what justifies the expense of the education.”

(As a former two-time ivy leaguer, I say…) these Ivy-fostered social ideals deserve nothing but the trash bin, whence they came. Look at what the Ivory Tower has created for itself — giant bureaucracies of radical thought which agressively promote thought codes (“speech codes”) to abridge individual liberty. Wealthy Godzillas of education churning out like-minded, bright but poorly educated youth for other gigantic organizations.

What about the essential importance of the traditional purposes of education? These schools no longer consider it of primary importance to foster the development of

Incisive analysis

the discipline required for clear thinking

Persuasive expression, oral and written

An understanding of where we came from

A love of nation

etc.

With exceptions, Ivy fails at this miserably — but one can, of course, take courses on the validity of Koranic ideals, lesbianism in the middle ages, desconstructing the Constitution, etc.

Education factories turning out product for consumption by those who need it.