[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 22 17:12:57 PDT 2008


On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> I'm not sure I share your assumptions here. Correct me if I'm wrong,
> but you seem to claim some correlation between deferential approaches
> to academic authority and an embrace of the higher education for its
> own sake, rather than as a vocational meal ticket.

No. I don't know how I can make this any clearer. But I'll try this. The children of the rich who attend elite colleges are generally entitled pricks. The children of the working class who go to nonelite colleges aren't.

Doug



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