An Education In Cynicism
Robert J. Samuelson,
Washington Post,
Jan 23, 2002
It just strikes me as silly in this day and age that there should be anything like a shortage of spaces in college and university classes. But there is, and it isn't helped by people trying to be admitted into the 'right' institutions and the institutions' admissions practices. "What we have, for the moment, is the spectacle of some of America's most prestigious educational institutions engaged in behavior that can only be described as antisocial. They have subordinated students' interests to their own. This is hypocritical and indifferent to any larger social good."
CRLFOne thing I never forget when I write about education issues is that in any place and time other than Alberta (Canada) in 1980 I would not have been able to go to university at all. I wouldn't have been able to afford it, and I wouldn't have been admitted. My loss, certainly, but maybe society's too?
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