- Jul 2025
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www.c-span.org www.c-span.org
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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.
Tags
- multiculturalism
- consumerism
- The American Scholar
- Orson Welles
- college education
- James Rosser
- Little Rock, AR
- higher education
- grade inflation
- Rosemarie Marshall
- Civil Rights Movement
- student evaluations
- buyer's market
- Peter Brier
- watch
- humanities
- 1998
- Aristides
- decline of humanities
- Joseph I. Epstein
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- Dec 2024
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in the very early 1930s, academic news;their Great Books seminar was enough of a novelty both in substanceand method that celebrities on transcontinental train trips began tostop off in Chicago to take a look. Among these were Hollywood starsLillian Gish and Orson Welles, and Eugene Meyer, publisher of theWashington Post (and father of Katherine Graham, a student enrolled inthe seminar).18 The most famous visitor of all was Gertrude Stein.
visitors of Adler & Hutchins' great books seminars
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- Sep 2018
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Fifteen minutes into the program, listeners began to call the station in terror, believing that the earth was really being invaded by Martians.
To what extent is this accurate and to what extent a myth?
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