Saturday, May 05, 2018

Hey, Kanye!! Look at Harvard!!

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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