[lit-ideas] Re: Speak, Oh Academics!

Quoting John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>wrote:
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> > The more interestinjg question is whether Taylor has any clue as to the
> > nature
> > and conditions of university teaching and research.
> 
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> 
> Given the description of Taylor at the end of the piece, this seems a
> curious question.
> 
> Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia, is the
> > author of the forthcoming ?Field Notes From Elsewhere: Reflections on
> Dying
> > and Living.?
> 
> 
>  John

I fear that John's curiosity is engendered by two unexamined presuppositions in
his argument. I believe both to be false, as is the conclusion he implies on
their grounds. 


Walter O.
Author of the hot best seller *Publishing, Administering but not Understanding:
the Complete Closing of the Educative Mind*,

Walter O.
Sales Representative
Morgan Stanley Educational Textbooks & Videos



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