milkman95th
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« on: May 10, 2011, 01:16:49 AM » |
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Below is a paper I wrote trying to answer this question. You do not have to read it or even look at it to answer the question, but it may help provide a little context for the question. It may seem like there is an obvious answer to the question of purpose or aim, but I find that many people have differing interests in what higher education should be about. Do you agree with my purpose? Why or why not? What is yours? Let the debate begin! http://hubpages.com/hub/What-is-Higher-Educations-Purpose |
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yellowtractor
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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2011, 01:29:56 PM » |
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To fix the snails before the tigers win. It's that simple.
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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slinger
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2011, 01:35:38 PM » |
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Is it okay to say, "I'm confused" if I really am confused?
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Several threads on the fora could be solved by just Being A Damn Grownup.
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2011, 01:46:53 PM » |
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To fix the snails before the tigers win. It's that simple.
I'm sorry; I believe you have misquoted this. Isn't it "to fix the nails before the tigers swim"? On a related topic, sock-shoe-sock-shoe, or sock-sock-shoe-shoe ... which is better? Let the debate begin! VP |
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If you need me, I'll be hiding under a rock until mid-August. Try not to need me, unless you come bearing Chinese food.
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prof_smartypants
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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2011, 01:49:39 PM » |
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"At the most fundamental level, the question of deciding what the university’s aims and priorities ought to be seems insoluble, if only because empirically there is so little agreement at present about them within society and even less prospect for achieving some general consensus among all the protagonists involved… For the immediate future, it seems unlikely the university will abandon any of its multiple tasks."
a) What about the university's aims cannot be dissolved?
b) What do you mean there is empirically little agreement?
c) Who are the protagonists involved, and how do they interact with the plot?
Did this Lucas person really write this? And if so, why did you feel the need to quote such a terribly written article to begin your discussion about the problems in higher education? Reading this, my immediate response is:
To teach people how to write; to shame people who refuse to learn into submission.
On preview, obviously the answer is sock-sock-shoe-shoe.
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Welcome to college, motherf*cker.
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larryc
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2011, 04:29:11 PM » |
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The purpose of higher education is to teach people not to annoy strangers with overly-long, unfocused, self-important essays.
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daniel_von_flanagan
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2011, 06:08:10 PM » |
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Every time I get undressed at bedtime I am confronted with another opportunity to contemplate what is the chief end of man. - DvF
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The U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of academically underprepared administrators.
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samspade
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2011, 02:51:08 AM » |
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Sometimes I think its to give jackasses employment (I might be included in that statement).
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spyzowin
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2011, 05:47:29 AM » |
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Higher education has evolved to address the proliferation of busy work crap in our elementary and high schools--eg group work, sitting in semi-circles, discussing feelings, explorations, craft projects, watching movies, studying pointless crap.
If children learnt properly--eg individual rote learning, few breaks, orderly rows, extremely limited subjects and were properly motivated (the strap).
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yellowtractor
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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2011, 05:02:23 PM » |
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Higher education has evolved to address the proliferation of busy work crap in our elementary and high schools--eg group work, sitting in semi-circles, discussing feelings, explorations, craft projects, watching movies, studying pointless crap.
If children learnt properly--eg individual rote learning, few breaks, orderly rows, extremely limited subjects and were properly motivated (the strap).
"Busywork" and "semicircle" are their own words in English, without spaces or hyphens. "E.g." has periods. Etc. But I do I agree that if children learned properly in the first place, you and I wouldn't have to have this sort of exchange. If you think the strap would help at this late stage, PM me with your geographical location, and I will be there. |
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2011, 05:06:29 PM » |
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To give us something to do between stripping gigs. <interthreaduality>
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My work ethic is somewhere in Lake Buena Vista. I need to go look for it.
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canuckois
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« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2011, 08:27:06 PM » |
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Higher education has evolved to address the proliferation of busy work crap in our elementary and high schools--eg group work, sitting in semi-circles, discussing feelings, explorations, craft projects, watching movies, studying pointless crap.
If children learnt properly--eg individual rote learning, few breaks, orderly rows, extremely limited subjects and were properly motivated (the strap).
God, you're such a caricature of yourself. Higher education also evolved to teach people how to write complete sentences. In your case, it has failed. |
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Now I am Angelina Jolie! No, wait, I am her leg!!
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kithara
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« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2011, 02:37:24 AM » |
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Sometimes, on a bad day, it seems to me that the only purpose is higher education is to keep the students busy until their brains finish maturing.
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We're talking about keeping an eye on students for a few minutes ... not juggling cats while riding a unicycle on the high wire while singing arias and solving differential equations in one's head.
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« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2011, 03:20:36 AM » |
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In light of the recent fracas involving a NYC politician I apologize for my previous post in this thread. - DvF
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The U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of academically underprepared administrators.
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« Reply #14 on: June 16, 2011, 08:13:53 AM » |
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In light of the recent fracas involving a NYC politician I apologize for my previous post in this thread. - DvF
Don't. A purpose of higher education is to have people make connections between various components of their lives including the relevant literature and contribute to the discussion in the public sphere as informed citizens. Your post certainly did that. |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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