Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> I know I'm just defending myself and my colleagues, but I must contest
> this. Most of the faculty that I work with could obtain far more filthy
> lucre working in the private sector. For instance, the nursing faculty
> at my college educate students who make more than the faculty do when
> students begin their first job as RNs. For the most part, college
> faculty are not "opportunists"; they are people who fervently believe in
> the inherent individual and social benefits of learning. They deserve
> our gratitude, not our opprobrium.
Among left intellectuals in the U.S. there is no more regressive and really stupid attitude than this widely prevalent contempt for university faculty. Miles is wholly correct, and it is really sad that the argument even needs to be made on a progressive maillist.
Carrol