Farewell University

Why the United States higher education institutions so afraid? – John Stossel

Thus, for many reasons.

First, universities have long made independent of a coherent vision for higher education in a wrong way to be social and institutional “compromise.” In other words, universities have become social institutions, not of learning but of self-perpetuation. In fact, work as a union or guild closed.

When there is nobody to watch the watchers – beware!

University professors are increasingly rare, dedicated to research for the sake of research is – or are in it for the benefits, prestige, and increasingly as a place to hide from a society that is visceral or criticize vehemently dislike – from a highly protected site perspective, of course.

It has become a country club of inflation with federal funds from the ideas unchecked, faulty reasoning, old-fashioned radicalism, or the elegant posture, milking extravagant adulation through the brand of the middle classes, and a nice combination of tricks and less light used to excite the same time deeply deceive their young wards until it is time to throw to the wolves – uninformed, uneducated, and perhaps worse, half full of prejudices intellectuals.

To be fair, any person or group to blame. But on the other side a convincing historical argument could be that involved the federal government, university administrators, and the complacent, insensitive, and useless, capricious, and the middle classes fatally island as a constellation of forces emptying the university of its traditional character, beliefs, and functions.

However, the decline of the American university is unfortunately one piece. It is a reflection of a nation so accustomed himself telling the truth about anything, so used to spitting platitudes and slogans instead of accepting the arduous paths of complex thinking that is going to be a surprise to anyone outside observers or the future that the American university had become a new memorial to the mandarins, a closed window on the world hide failure, fear of being discovered, and especially the fundamental disbelief in all that is good, beautiful or sublime.