Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university, George Packer writes in @TheAtlantic: “A university is a community, but it is a community of a special kind -- a community devoted to inquiry. It exists so that its members may inquire into truths of all sorts. Its presence marks our commitment to the idea that somewhere in society there must be an organization in which anything can be studied or questioned—not merely safe and established things but difficult and inflammatory things, the most troublesome questions of politics and war, of sex and morals, of property and national loyalty.” This mission rendered the community fragile, dependent on the self-restraint of its members. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@NAChristakis @TheAtlantic I’m sorry that people standing up to apartheid and genocide upsets you so much
@blandCinema @NAChristakis @TheAtlantic "Standing up" like October 7?
@blandCinema @NAChristakis @TheAtlantic If their commitment to the cause is so strong, it should be nothing to get the proper permission and follow the rules of that authorization. Otherwise, it seems like their intentions and cause are something different than they claim.
@blandCinema Which American colleges are doing apartheid and genocide?
@blandCinema @NAChristakis @TheAtlantic There's only a small number that I've seen standing up to apartheid & genocide. The ones making the news support the apartheid & genocidal Hamas.
@blandCinema @NAChristakis @TheAtlantic I agree with your opinion considering the war. The protests though could be done outside the universities and with less promotion of violence. Violence is bad , yes?