Lamenting the loss of real education
April 14, 2011, Thursday
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DEAR editor,
AS to your column "Professors who Profane Confucius and Socialist Values Should Go" (Shanghai Daily April 8), I was shocked to read the referenced professor's comments that "Poverty means shame and failure to someone with an advanced academic degree."
The poison of greed and the seduction of creating a "face" to go with one's own self-assigned status!
I sometimes long for the "old days" (of my youth) when clerics and teachers wore simple clothing, both so as not to "stand out" and to represent their choice of alternative values.
There is an article in a recent Wall Street Journal which argues that most students should not "have to take" courses in art or literature but rather should pursue "useful training" in how to run and participate in a business.
God help us all! It used to be that "liberal arts" meant expanding young minds to understand how large the universe is, how many diverse and wonderful cultures there are, and the miracles of art and literature! Citizens are not just consumers
AS to your column "Professors who Profane Confucius and Socialist Values Should Go" (Shanghai Daily April 8), I was shocked to read the referenced professor's comments that "Poverty means shame and failure to someone with an advanced academic degree."
The poison of greed and the seduction of creating a "face" to go with one's own self-assigned status!
I sometimes long for the "old days" (of my youth) when clerics and teachers wore simple clothing, both so as not to "stand out" and to represent their choice of alternative values.
There is an article in a recent Wall Street Journal which argues that most students should not "have to take" courses in art or literature but rather should pursue "useful training" in how to run and participate in a business.
God help us all! It used to be that "liberal arts" meant expanding young minds to understand how large the universe is, how many diverse and wonderful cultures there are, and the miracles of art and literature! Citizens are not just consumers
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