I appears that genuine freedom is NOT on the menu at Harvard.
...sending a young criminal offender to Harvard might be worse than sending
him to prison. Seriously--I don't mean this as one of my usual
sarcastic sideswipes. At least in prison you might learn something true
and useful. Whereas at Harvard, the latest shiny thing is a "social
justice certificate course." My favorite among the social justice
offerings is the course on "Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of
Food."....
Well, OK, then. $60 grand a year for that....umnnnhhh.....
Contrast that to Folsom!
... check out some time Earl Shorris's 2013 book The Art of Freedom: Teaching Humanities to the Poor.
Shorris tells the story of teaching old fashioned humanities to prison
inmates and other disadvantaged and poor people in settings all over
the world, and the liberating and enriching effect it has on their
lives--the kind of effect once delivered by our best universities, but
less and less with each passing day...
(Both quotations of S. Hayward are found at AOSHQ.)
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