https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein_(writer)

taco bell-ification of education (Q&A)

The Point of a College Education by [[C-SPAN]]

Orson Welles quote about so many of him and so few of you at a lecture to 3-4 people in a snow storm.

statistics about the drops in humanities (~42:00)

consumerist spirit in higher education (45:00)

student evaluations (47:00)

education is a buyer's market now instead of a seller's as it had been in past generations

grade inflation

consumerism with respect to feminism and women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, multiculturalism in higher education

radical education as "going to the root"

in short, "let us entertain you" as consumerist education

"The job o education is never finished."

The hidden point of a University of Chicago education: Be an artist, be a scientist, be a statesman, be a teacher of artists, scientists, or statesmen.

Epstein quoting Norman Maclean, the author of The River Runs Through It and a professor at University of Chicago.

I would be lucky, I felt, merely to fail in accounting course. More likely, I would turn my participation in such a course. Into a felony. Accounting had to be avoided, but how? Something called the liberal arts, I learned, excluded accounting. As for what they included, I had no idea. But whatever it was, I felt that I had a shot at it. I signed up.

What does Josephs say about himself? (Peter Brier)

I get my education writing about things that until I actually do write about them I don't know that much about. I read. up I think through. I write out.

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University of Chicago's great books program