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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi, Marcus, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So, I take it, you </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>è</span><b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>Don’t</span></i></b><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>ç</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> think that “…the future safety and prosperity of our nation depends on...” getting more resources ”…to education at every level”?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Nick <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Marcus Daniels<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 04, 2018 10:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Owen Densmore <<a href="mailto:owen@backspaces.net">owen@backspaces.net</a>><br><b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:34 AM<br><b>To: </b>Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Frank and Nick in the Santa Fe newspaper:</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/vote-the-future-of-our-nation-depends-on-it/article_75256ffa-c10f-565b-ac01-debb4dfe3d90.html">http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/vote-the-future-of-our-nation-depends-on-it/article_75256ffa-c10f-565b-ac01-debb4dfe3d90.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> -- Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>