Stumbled over this. It’s sufficiently incendiary and incorrect that I thought it might interest some here. It’s about 20 minutes long, so get a cold one and then run it.
Published on Aug 25, 2015
CISC Executive Director C. Bradley Thompson speaks to the incoming class of Lyceum Scholars at Clemson University on the nature of a liberal arts education.
In answer to a question as to the topic–I’d call it a restatement of what an education is, is not, and why it matters. An answer to Jake Holman’s question in “The Sand Pebbles”, “What the hell went wrong?”
It’s funny, the people who always poo-poo capitalism are the ones who don’t make anything. I don’t think I met a single fiscal liberal in college (ChemE), and that includes a few lesbians. Even in my career, most people I meet are conservatives. I’d think 90% of America was conservative if I didn’t know I live in a bubble.
It;s refreshing to see that there are still some sane people in the largely indoctrinated academic fields. These guys must be pariahs among their peers.
Aside from one chick who thinks Israel deserves to be blown off the face of the earth because the first born son, Ishmael, deserves everything, my career is very similar.
When the black women at your work are complaining about Obama it is a good day.
“An unsatisfactory attitude” is why I was not there for year six. But I also had the highest-rated student evaluations in the entire department. Funny, they were never able to explain that one…
