7 Replies to ““Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College” [Darleen Click]”

1. newrouter says:

   December 14, 2013 at 9:05 pm

   fat lady sings

   Is the Pope Marxist?

2. newrouter says:

   December 14, 2013 at 10:11 pm

   These movements, therefore, always affect the power structure as
   such indirectly, as a part of society as a whole, for they are primarily
   addressing the hidden spheres of society, since it is not a matter of
   confronting the regime on the level of actual power.
   I have already indicated one of the ways this can work: an awareness
   of the laws and the responsibility for seeing that they are upheld
   is indirectly strengthened. That, of course, is only a specific instance
   of a far broader influence, the indirect pressure felt from living
   within the truth: the pressure created by free thought, alternative
   values and ‘alternative behaviour’, and by independent social selfrealization.
   The power structure, whether it wants to or not, must
   always react to this pressure to a certain extent. Its response,
   however, is always limited to two dimensions: repression and adaptation.
   Sometimes one dominates, sometimes the other. For
   example, the Polish ‘Flying University’ came under increased
   persecution and the ‘flying teachers’ were detained by the police. At
   the same time, however, professors in existing official universities
   tried to enrich their own curricula with several subjects hitherto
   considered taboo and this was a result of indirect pressure exerted by
   the ‘Flying University’. The motives for this adaptation may vary
   from the ‘ideal’ (the hidden sphere has received the message and
   conscience and the will to truth are awakened) to the purely utilitarian:
   the regime’s instinct for survival compels it to notice the
   changing ideas and the changing mental and social climate and react
   flexibly to them. Which of these motives happens to predominate in
   a given moment is not essential in terms of the final affect.
   Adaptation is-the positive dimension of the regime’s response,
   and it can, and usually does, have a wide spectrum of forms and
   phases. Some circles may try to integrate values or people from the
   ‘parallel world’ into the official structures, to appropriate them, to
   become a little like them while trying to make them a little like
   themselves, and thus to adjust an obvious and untenable imbalance.
   In the 1960s, progressive communists began

3. newrouter says:

   December 14, 2013 at 10:35 pm

   In the 1960s, progressive communists began to ‘discover’ certain
   unacknowledged cultural values and phenomena.

4. Mueller says:

   December 15, 2013 at 8:06 am

   Which is why my father insisted that each of his sons learn a trade as well as get a degree.

5. leigh says:

   December 15, 2013 at 8:40 am

   Your father was a wise man.

6. sdferr says:

   December 15, 2013 at 9:40 am

   Harvey C. Mansfield: Science and Non-Science in Liberal Education (the paper), (the paper delivered in mp3, or flash video [Keynote address])

7. sdferr says:

   December 15, 2013 at 11:59 am

   Peter O’Toole, dead at 81. Seems he attended Drama school(s), not exactly College — a vocational school, we might say — and did alright.

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