[lit-ideas] Re: Can Professors Make the World Better?
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:11:33 +0900
How many of us are?
John
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the other hand, was Henry George worth the effort?
>
> "All women are created equal.
> Then some become Marines"
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> Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
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> Thomas Hart
> tehart@xxxxxxx
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> On Apr 3, 2012, at 9:21 PM, John McCreery wrote:
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> Many years ago, when a similar discussion took place, someone pointed me
> to a letter from Henry George, writing in the 1890s and complaining that
> nine out of ten of the Harvard undergraduates he taught were content with
> gentlemen's Cs and only one was worth the teacher's effort.
>
> John
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Lawrence Helm <
> lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> David,****
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>> ** **
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>> Ironically, I just read an article commemorating the 25th anniversary of
>> Alan Bloom’s *Closing of the American Mind.
>> http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/book-drove-them-crazy_634905.html?nopager=1
>> *
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>> * *
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>> Initially, Bloom’s book was praised even by professors representing
>> points of view criticized by Bloom, but once his book was more clearly
>> understood it was condemned by such professors – who went on to close the
>> American mind even more thoroughly than before, e.g., “Last year, the
>> American Council of Trustees and Alumni surveyed the catalogues of more
>> than one thousand colleges and universities. Fewer than 20 percent of the
>> schools required courses in American government, only a third required a
>> literature survey class, and 15 percent required anything more than a
>> beginner’s level class in a foreign language. The results have been
>> predictable. The authors of *Academically Adrift, *the most devastating
>> book on higher education since Bloom, found that nearly half of
>> undergraduates show no measurable improvement in knowledge or ‘critical
>> thinking’ after two years of college.” ****
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>> Lawrence****
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>> ** **
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>> *From:* lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
>> lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *David Ritchie
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:09 PM
>> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Can Professors Make the World Better?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I'm preparing a class on Eugenics. The following lines from Wikipedia
>> jumped out:****
>>
>> *In the Chinese province of Sichuan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan> in
>> 1999, a sperm bank called Notables' Sperm Bank, opened, with professors as
>> the only permitted donors. The semen bank was approved by the authority for
>> family planning in the provincial capital
>> Chengdu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu>
>> .*[181] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#cite_note-180>**
>> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugenics&action=edit§ion=29>
>> ]****
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>> David Ritchie,****
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>> Portland, Oregon****
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