"I am dumb as shit."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/education-humanities-college-value.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/education-humanities-college-value.html
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Professors not being able to market their field is not the problem here.
this was despite the fact that you couldn't even get into these classes in your 1st two years because of demand.
meanwhile tuition was very high (because private technical college) and we had the highest paid college president in the entire country.
Preaching to one's choir is easy. Conversion rate nears 100% when there's no conversion to do in the first place.
And I've heard of a number of even more insensitive remarks.
Science can tell us how to clone dinosaurs.
Humanities tell us why it’s a bad idea.
Those are not skills we are currently missing. Like, at all.
Most people love travel for the sights, the food, and the culture. Maybe even the photos.
Not... whatever this latest round of projection is about.
That's a result of pushing your boundaries and being unprepared for a hardship.
Love the bit on her wiki page about her personal life “she resides with both her current husband and ex-husband.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Callard
They connect us to our past, help us understand our present, and think critically about our future. Extractive & oppressive power brokers & their lackeys prefer an isolated, atomized populace as it enables their profit
Doesn't help that much of its history was written by equally privileged individuals
Too bad there isn't some educational field that focuses on method to gather data that could provide more definite answers than that.....
Agnes Callard (posting): my kids eat poop and they like it
U of Chicago: Agnes you deserve 100 million dollars