12.09.08
Best and brightest?
The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081208_hedges_best_brightest/
Posted on Dec 8, 2008
By Chris Hedges
The multiple failures that beset the country, from our mismanaged
economy to our shredded constitutional rights to our lack of universal
health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle East, can be laid at
the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating
students to think. They focus instead, through the filter of
standardized tests, enrichment activities, advanced placement classes,
high-priced tutors, swanky private schools and blind deference to all
authority, on creating hordes of competent systems managers. The
collapse of the country runs in a direct line from the manicured
quadrangles and halls in places like Cambridge, Princeton and New Haven
to the financial and political centers of power.
James said,
December 9, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Good read that pretty much sums up my experience. Four years at Cornell that went by in a haze and probably resulted in irreparable brain damage. Of course, it could also be a result of having to live in the sh*thole that is upstate NY.