Yeah, 'Two Cultures' again

[alice malice]

Menand does a fine job of describing the resistance to reform. It goes like
this in most places: If my Philosophy of Technology course is not
required....and so on....I will lose my position....blah blah...so everyone
wanting the students, their money...and then courses like, Derrida,
Pynchon's Females & The Whores of True Detectives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Berube-t.html?_r=0


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:35 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>wrote:

> I will never have enough of this debate. As a scientist who loves art, who
> believes in magic and beauty, I agree with what the author says here. And,
> Big Science, Big Money, yeah...but I was disappointed in the solution, and,
> this is because I disagree with what he identifies as the problem:
> Education. The piece noce, but is ultimately a call for education
> reform. We need more imaginative scientists and so on, the current
> education system is not producing them. Reform it! So far, reform is
> about Big Money and Big Data and Big Science and Small Teachers.
>
> The solution is an internation strike by educators.
>
>
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