Post-Secondary Education & James O'Connor (was Re: Pro-ITNLibelSuit Post)

[Brad De Long]

>
>Actually I think truck drivers should contribute to
>universities
>and higher education, very much so, whether they personally
>attend or not.
>Universities, are not (in my opionion) meant to be places
>where people
>improve their job prospects, but where society educates
>itself, and
>generates new knowledge, by questioning existing knowledge.
>
>They have a higher remit, I think, than just the training of
>people to fill
>jobs, there is the potential there to lift the whole of
>society. The
>loss of their academic freedom in order to produce
>supposedly
>trained individuals required by industry is a terrible
>shame.
>
>Is it not possible for truck drivers to appreciate knowledge
>generated in a univerisity?  Why is assumed that ordinary
>people
>could never value or understand this - isn't this a rather
>dim
>view of truck drivers?
>
>cheers,
>Paul

Go back and read what I wrote:


>A still bigger problem with the lack of explicit
>>  tuition fees is that
>>  those who attend institutions of higher education
>>  have high lifetime
>>  wealth relative to the rest of their society.
>>  Truck drivers' taxes
>>  should not be going to pay for the training--or even the
>  enlightenment--of future lawyers...