[FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com

[Nick Thompson]

Hi, Marcus, 

 

So, I take it, you ==>Don’t<== think that “…the future safety and prosperity of our nation depends on...” getting more resources ”…to education at every level”?

 

My own view is (FWIW) that, despite the many faults you identify, some time in a college or university is a good idea for most people and that society gains from giving some highly-educated people the opportunity to pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered.  I wish the professoriate was, as a rule, more grateful for the opportunities that academic freedom gives them  and less arrogant in the expression of their inexpert opinions.  I am an “alumnus” of the ferocious battle between the California republican party and the Berkeley campus activists of the sixties.  I am increasingly doubtful that recruitment for political action, in any sense, ought to be part of the portfolio of any professor.    I hate to say it, but Reagan may have won THAT argument.  The moat around the ivory tower may be part of the deal.  

 

What I would hate to see is that because of well-founded distaste for some academics’ behavior, people like yourself adopt a global contempt for education at every level.  

 

Nick  

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> > on behalf of Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net <mailto:owen at backspaces.net> >
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Date: Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:34 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com

 

Frank and Nick in the Santa Fe newspaper: 

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/vote-the-future-of-our-nation-depends-on-it/article_75256ffa-c10f-565b-ac01-debb4dfe3d90.html

 

   -- Owen

 

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