"Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a "subject" remains a "subject," divided by watertight bulkheads from all other "subjects," so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between [any two subjects]" https://t.co/c30fhhKC8Y
Increasingly convinced the incessant claim that a humanities education is about "critical thinking"—rather than content mastery—is a scam designed to justify the humanities in "skill-building" terms that are legible within the university's new role as a credentialing bureaucracy.
IT TAKES INTELLECTUALS TO COME UP WITH SOME OF THE DUMBEST IDEAS
Professor @GadSaad :
"The academic who literally lives in the Ivory Tower is fully detached from the auto corrective mechanism of reality.
In other disciplines, like the humanities and some of the... See more