which data set was being used? I kind of missed the long term, large scale study that showed a decline in mental faculties.
and goshes, who knew/ they have a way to study and measure moral character that (!!!) is unaffected by normative assumptions that don't favor elites? who knew?!
BTW, being a smarty pants myself, I chose to raise a kid who most o' y'all would think was dumb and apathetic. Yay ME! and fuck all y'all! and your daughter, too, Dennis ! LOL
On Oct 30, 2007 9:26 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> It's interesting that the criticisms of Harvard students were taken
> up enthusiastically, but that criticisms of less elite kids are
> dismissed. If you think the society is polarizing and pervasively
> anti-intellectual, wouldn't that show up in classrooms (besides those
> in Cambridge, that is)? More broadly, if you don't think that being
> poor or working class is at all damaging to mind and character, why
> be anti-capitalist?
>
> Doug
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