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92david foster November 9, 2012 at 7:38 am Alice Finkel…”Higher education has become an incredibly artificial and surprisingly authoritarian (no free speech) environment”
Very true. And it is not psychologically healthy, for most people, to spend 18 or 20 years on the educational conveyor belt. Here’s something Peter Drucker wrote, way back in 1969:
“Schools have become, by design, institutions for the preservation of adolescence. They keep the young person in the most unnatural society, a society composed exclusively of his contemporaries. School, even if it builds performance and experience into its curriculum to the fullest extent possible, is finite, certain, predictable…In school one cannot become an adult.
The best example is the delayed adolescence so common among highly trained young physicians…The same delayed adolescence is only too noticeable among graduate students who stay on year after year in an environment in which all the emphasis is on their being “promising” and almost none on their performing.”
But breaking the unjust power of the credentialists over the job market isn’t going to be easy. Too much money and power is involved. Victor Davis Hanson wrote:
“By the millennium, faculty were conscious that the university was a sort of farm and the students the paying crop that had to be cultivated if it were to make it all the way to harvest and sale — and thus pay for the farmers’ livelihood.”
I’m not sure this is fair as applied to the majority of the faculty, but it is true as applied to university administrators.
93Susan Walsh November 9, 2012 at 7:49 am There was a culinary Lysistrata on Little House on the Prairie that I remember from my childhood. lol The women stopped cooking and taking care of their kids until the men caved in and supported their voting rights.
In The Quiet Man, Maureen O’Hara refuses to have sex with John Wayne after the wedding until he has stood up to her brother and demanded her dowry. The sexual tension between them is fierce – and John Wayne said it was his favorite of all his movies. Needless to say, her plan works, and seeing him dominate her brother drives her wild with desire for him.
94Susan Walsh November 9, 2012 at 7:51 am And that’s how submission works. Mrs. wavevector isn’t weak, nor is she a doormat. I’m not a domineering husband. But in the end she decided to do what I asked because she loves me, and she did it in a playful, flirtatious way that made me want her and care for her even more.
