That “witchy” background is great. I have to wonder what your comments might have been if you had run with whatever that theme might have inspired. Given the title of your post, combined with the background, and for a few seconds I wondered if you were actually going to discuss the paradigm shifts needed to educate more witches (or shamans, magi, mystics, or heretics). This came to my mind because I’ve been studying Roman paganism lately, and I was surprised to discover that in the pagan Roman Empire (well before making Christianity the official religion), witches were burned. I think of witches today as pagans, so I assumed pagan Rome would have been witch friendly. But I forgot that Rome was first and foremost an empire, and there’s just something about empire that suppresses wisdom in all its forms. Maybe your use of that background was more auspicious (in the Roman pagan sense) than you were consciously aware.
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"Letting the university take care of all of students’ needs—food, housing, healthcare, policing, punishing misbehavior—can be infantilizing for young adults. Worse, it warps students’ political thinking to eat food that simply materializes in front of them and live in residence halls that others keep clean"
To be fair, this Nick Burns sounds kinda green with envy, lol. I say this as someone who went to a fairly typical state university in 2002-2006, then grad school from 2006-2011 at another, and assuming things have not become radically different since then (aside from trigger warnings, wokeness, and cancel culture, that is).
As the saying goes, moral indignation is 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Some of your ideas on education have come to pass with the Internet.
MIT alumni are effusive about their online classes, which are in many cases free unless you want to receive credit for attending.
Years ago someone, (Jeanne Meister? a Deloitte book on education?) said that studies had shown that when a professor made a comment that struck the students as unique, it popped up in discussions across campuses, because it was shared among friends who had gone to high school together.
Thank you for all the suggestions, I haven't gotten to most.
What we really need is a full debt jubilee across the board, and not just for student loans either (but certainly those as well). Kinda like the ancient Israelites had every 49 years. It can be done easily with a few keystrokes on a computer, thanks to Monetary Sovereignty / MMT.
As for college specifically, there are plenty of other countries like Denmark where it is not only free in terms of tuition, but students actually get a stipend as well. Be like Denmark. Again, Monetary Sovereignty / MMT means that money is no object for those who create it.
As for UBI, which I fully support: the oligarchs with their so-called Great Reset will eventually inevitably offer us something kinda shaped like UBI, but theirs will have plenty of strings attached. We must then beat them to it, with one that has NO STRINGS ATTACHED. The working class will gain much more bargaining power as a result. Goodbye oligarchy!
They will NOT own us. And they will NOT be happy, lol.
Buckminster Fuller would be proud.
Oh, and we need to abolish usury as well. That is the single biggest driver of our inane and insane addiction to growth for the sake of growth, the ideology of the cancer cell, which eventually kills its host.
That “witchy” background is great. I have to wonder what your comments might have been if you had run with whatever that theme might have inspired. Given the title of your post, combined with the background, and for a few seconds I wondered if you were actually going to discuss the paradigm shifts needed to educate more witches (or shamans, magi, mystics, or heretics). This came to my mind because I’ve been studying Roman paganism lately, and I was surprised to discover that in the pagan Roman Empire (well before making Christianity the official religion), witches were burned. I think of witches today as pagans, so I assumed pagan Rome would have been witch friendly. But I forgot that Rome was first and foremost an empire, and there’s just something about empire that suppresses wisdom in all its forms. Maybe your use of that background was more auspicious (in the Roman pagan sense) than you were consciously aware.
Awesome article.
"Letting the university take care of all of students’ needs—food, housing, healthcare, policing, punishing misbehavior—can be infantilizing for young adults. Worse, it warps students’ political thinking to eat food that simply materializes in front of them and live in residence halls that others keep clean"
To be fair, this Nick Burns sounds kinda green with envy, lol. I say this as someone who went to a fairly typical state university in 2002-2006, then grad school from 2006-2011 at another, and assuming things have not become radically different since then (aside from trigger warnings, wokeness, and cancel culture, that is).
As the saying goes, moral indignation is 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Some of your ideas on education have come to pass with the Internet.
MIT alumni are effusive about their online classes, which are in many cases free unless you want to receive credit for attending.
Years ago someone, (Jeanne Meister? a Deloitte book on education?) said that studies had shown that when a professor made a comment that struck the students as unique, it popped up in discussions across campuses, because it was shared among friends who had gone to high school together.
Thank you for all the suggestions, I haven't gotten to most.
What we really need is a full debt jubilee across the board, and not just for student loans either (but certainly those as well). Kinda like the ancient Israelites had every 49 years. It can be done easily with a few keystrokes on a computer, thanks to Monetary Sovereignty / MMT.
As for college specifically, there are plenty of other countries like Denmark where it is not only free in terms of tuition, but students actually get a stipend as well. Be like Denmark. Again, Monetary Sovereignty / MMT means that money is no object for those who create it.
As for UBI, which I fully support: the oligarchs with their so-called Great Reset will eventually inevitably offer us something kinda shaped like UBI, but theirs will have plenty of strings attached. We must then beat them to it, with one that has NO STRINGS ATTACHED. The working class will gain much more bargaining power as a result. Goodbye oligarchy!
They will NOT own us. And they will NOT be happy, lol.
Buckminster Fuller would be proud.
Oh, and we need to abolish usury as well. That is the single biggest driver of our inane and insane addiction to growth for the sake of growth, the ideology of the cancer cell, which eventually kills its host.