The Bottom Line ...

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:  

And aren't these well among the types of questions that are
and should
> be asked, taken up in "the humanities," which might well be our only institutions to
> do so?  My guess is that just about anybody involved is involved because they feel,
> believe, think that there are possibilities, priorities other than "the bottom line"
>

Thank you Dave. Good to know academic freedom is alive and
kicking. 

I just read the WSJ and swear by every word...I can tell by
what you carry that you come from Barrytown.

Reading it I've discovered that there is considerable
evidence that things have not improved much in the seventy
odd years since Sinclair wrote about schools and business.
What is taught in schools is what business wants. What could
be taught is what society needs and justices requires. 

Man is dominated by the making of money, by acquisition as
the ultimate purpose of his life. Economic acquisition is no
longer subordinate to man as the means for the satisfaction
of his material needs. 

The Puritan wanted to work in a calling, we are forced to do
so. 

(Weber quotes Goethe) Specialists without spirit,
sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has
attained a level of civilization never before achieved. 

This stands in contrast to the Catholic, the moral
responsibility of the Protestant is
cumulative: the cycle of sin, repentance and forgiveness,
renewed throughout the life of the Catholic, is absent in
Protestantism.