[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Jul 22 17:30:01 PDT 2008


On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:12:57 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 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.

Very true. But neither group has any deference left toward educational "authority" -- and a good thing, too.

The working-class kids, like the elite kids, have a purely instrumental view of "education", and mostly think the profs are basically chumps. (Except for the kids who have the Mark of the Beast on their foreheads, and are going to go on to be profs themselves.)



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