Thread: A #HateRead that starts off bad and gets worse. nytimes.com/2020/07/12/opi…
It's not that the title if faulty, of course. Many of us believe that a liberal arts education is not only valuable but essential.
But it doesn't take long to turn into a bonafide NYT Education piece.
Why that word, seven words in? Does it only matter that "elite" (which I've said before just means "uncluttered by low-income students) really make the point any better?
Or are they literally the only colleges announcing re-opening plans?
Ah, perhaps this is why. We're focusing on that 15% to 18% of all college students who a) go to college right after high school, live in a residence hall, go full-time, and graduate four years later from the same college they entered.
Did Ms. Senior get her picture of college life from watching movies made in the early 1950's?
What we need, it always seems in articles like this, is a return to how things were a few centuries ago.
Because, I presume, that was the hey-day of liberal-arts education? Or do we long for small pox and cholera and child labor, too?
I guess I'm prescient.
This is something in the article I agree with, and in fact, I've said it. Every generation has its moment, and missing prom or graduation or internships is the defining moment of this generation. Not just COVID-19, either: BLM, political unrest, and political interest.
If George Bernard Shaw were alive today, he could drop this zinger of a paragraph right into the mouths of one of the characters in "Major Barbara."
Ah well, pity. Back to Xanadu.
I understand the readership of the NY Times, I guess, and I understand why things like this get printed.
But is this the hottest take on students managing this crisis as we can find?
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