June 29, 2009

Talk of Bursting Bubble Is 'Arrant Pedantry'

To the Editor:

Commentaries like "Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?" (The Chronicle, May 22) send shivers down my spine.

First, note the chilling language for anyone who believes in a liberal-arts education. A sense among the populace that higher education is "under-delivering" suggests that we are factories and students are inert machines. Second, note the rhetoric endorsing

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