[lit-ideas] Re: Speak, Oh Academics!
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:45:00 -0230
Quoting John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:
> How many of us have seen this New York Times Op-Ed?
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
>
> John
The more interestinjg question is whether Taylor has any clue as to the nature
and conditions of university teaching and research. To put it euphemistically,
his views may be fruitfully compared with those of Michael Oakeshott in his
seminal (oops) essay on liberal education.
Conversing with the voices of mankind (oops again) as best he can,
Walter O.
Director, Janitorial Services
Chicago School of Social and Political Thought
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> John McCreery
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