Bottom line: our admissions process is badly flawed. I blame it partly on the decline in the predominance in academic values coinciding with the bureaucratization of the university. Administrators are crowding out faculty not only numerically but in terms of power. I blame it partly on our academic obsession with evaluating people on the basis of group characteristics, not individual merit. What would Alexis de Tocqueville say visiting 21st century America, learning that students bribe their way into a ticket for economic success by lying about their ability to hit tennis balls? Is that the new American exceptionalism?
I don’t generally get enough that this would be a problem for me, and if I did, I don’t think I’d have the time. But it could be an interesting site improvement for her, if she does.
So… a bright shining lie based on misinformation (Gulf on Tonkin, etc) that our leaders knew was unwinnable from the get-go (Pentagon Papers) and killed hundreds of thousands unnecessarily … Good metaphor https://t.co/CUkmXa1bBh
Yes. This is one of the things that drove the “keep your ‘child’ on your health insurance until he’s 26.”
Meanwhile, what happens when all of childhood becomes college prep. In this formulation, the kids are being robbed of their childhood. In some sense, both things are happening.