Comments on: A Missive from the Chairman http://rot.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/a-missive-from-the-chairman/ All is not well beneath the shiny surface. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:59:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Lab Rat http://rot.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/a-missive-from-the-chairman/#comment-87 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:37:07 +0100 http://rot.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/a-missive-from-the-chairman/#comment-87 The article did get bashed around by a few bloggers when it came out, eg: http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/06/the_selfjustification_of_elite.php Deresiewicz does make some valid points in his article though. The article did get bashed around by a few bloggers when it came out, eg:

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/06/the_selfjustification_of_elite.php

Deresiewicz does make some valid points in his article though.

]]> by: LH http://rot.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/a-missive-from-the-chairman/#comment-86 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:55:10 +0100 http://rot.blogsome.com/2008/06/29/a-missive-from-the-chairman/#comment-86 "When parents explain why they work so hard to give their children the best possible education, they invariably say it is because of the opportunities it opens up. But what of the opportunities it shuts down? An elite education gives you the chance to be rich—which is, after all, what we’re talking about—but it takes away the chance not to be. Yet the opportunity not to be rich is one of the greatest opportunities with which young Americans have been blessed. We live in a society that is itself so wealthy that it can afford to provide a decent living to whole classes of people who in other countries exist (or in earlier times existed) on the brink of poverty or, at least, of indignity." Amazing that an article by an ivy league alumnus trying to critique the ivy league system still sounds so smug. “When parents explain why they work so hard to give their children the best possible education, they invariably say it is because of the opportunities it opens up. But what of the opportunities it shuts down? An elite education gives you the chance to be rich—which is, after all, what we’re talking about—but it takes away the chance not to be. Yet the opportunity not to be rich is one of the greatest opportunities with which young Americans have been blessed. We live in a society that is itself so wealthy that it can afford to provide a decent living to whole classes of people who in other countries exist (or in earlier times existed) on the brink of poverty or, at least, of indignity.”

Amazing that an article by an ivy league alumnus trying to critique the ivy league system still sounds so smug.

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