[lbo-talk] A Primitive Answer to High Tuition

michael perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Dec 22 20:58:04 PST 2009


Given the anti-intellectualism of today, maybe this is the answer for high tuition.

Mill, John Stuart. 1848. Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy, John Robson, ed., Vols. 2 and 3 of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965- ).

391: "Before the invention of the art of printing, a scholar and a beggar seem to have been terms very nearly synonymous. The different governors of the universities before that time appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg."

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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