“The floodgates have been opened wide to campus admission with faculty responding by adding courses and programs that do not prepare students in the important basic areas, especially, in the hard sciences and mathematics. ”
I think a lot of those courses should be cancelled outright, especially the ones that are subjective in nature. (Start with anything titled “______ Studies.”) Anyone want to make a living “teaching” that stuff should do so by opening an online forum and trying to attract paid subscribers. Of course, that would vastly reduce the number of people “teaching” those fields. In economic terms, that is called efficiencies of scale.
It’s the Industrial Revolution all over again, with academia in the role of the textile industry, and most of its gatekeepers as the Luddites.
We should all end the Prof an e-mail thanking him for telling the truth from inside the hallowed, but thin, halls of university life.
DS: I think you missed an opportunity to refer to the hollowed(-out) halls of university life.
Somehow this lyric comes to mind: “Ivy-covered professors, in ivy-covered halls”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl3mRjydcPw
“The floodgates have been opened wide to campus admission with faculty responding by adding courses and programs that do not prepare students in the important basic areas, especially, in the hard sciences and mathematics. ”
I think a lot of those courses should be cancelled outright, especially the ones that are subjective in nature. (Start with anything titled “______ Studies.”) Anyone want to make a living “teaching” that stuff should do so by opening an online forum and trying to attract paid subscribers. Of course, that would vastly reduce the number of people “teaching” those fields. In economic terms, that is called efficiencies of scale.
It’s the Industrial Revolution all over again, with academia in the role of the textile industry, and most of its gatekeepers as the Luddites.