Tuesday, August 30, 2005
More money!
Becky O'Malley, predictably, likes educational experiments. Nothing helps students more than fucking up their education in the name of politics.
No discussion of education is complete without pointing out the Latin root of the word, from the Latin educare, to lead out.
Actually, such a discussion would be complete, since we all speak English, rather than Latin. It turns out that "the Latin roots of this word are..." does not make for a convincing argument.
Page Smith himself didn't last even 10 years at UCSC, resigning in disgust at the decision of the academic bureaucracy to deny tenure to a valued colleague, and yet his former students who spoke at the memorial on Saturday continue to believe that their education was an outstanding success from their personal perspective.
Ah, they said good things about his work at his memorial, that must mean he was good at what he did. Because honestly, if he wasn't, then they would've still showed up to his memorial, but they would've said "Well, he wasn't much of an educator. Boy, did he suck at that."
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