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• Is a good deed subjectable to criticism?

  Tue Mar 6, 2007
  • Yes, I honestly believe it, because having worked in education [higher and lower] I've seen it often. Look around - there are 6- and 7-figure sums thrown around to a degree that would, apparently, surprise you.

• Is a good deed subjectable to criticism?

  Tue Mar 6, 2007
  • Most of the serious objections are coming not for how she spends her (private) money, but the way the school is run. There have been reports that students are kept away from their families, with very short windows of time (and infrequent) for visits - hit up Google, you'll find the story.

• As far as I'm concerned: teachers are the foundation of our very society.

  Tue May 1, 2007
  • Instructors in law and medical schools come from the population of practicing professionals in the field; this is very different than state-certified public school teachers. In short, all types of teachers aren't equal.

• Why we shouldn't aspire to grammatical correctness

  Mon Apr 23, 2007
  • Grammar as a weapon in the power struggle? I'll let you come up with your own witticism here, but I demand that it must 1) reference Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky and 2) incorporate the phrase, "doth protest too much." Language is an art; grammar allows us to create the highest art.

• Upstate NY Students Get Loans to Study Business and Farming

  Sat Apr 21, 2007
  • It really is - and the beauty is that the program is in place all across the United States, not just in Upstate New York. I was quite proud to read of some kids around here undertaking such difficult, interesting and especially relevant projects.

• Reactions to the Advanced Placement / AP Audit and How Teachers Fail

  Mon Apr 9, 2007
  • The College Board doesn't have any jurisdiction over those courses nor any involvement of any sort. They did, however, create the Advanced Placement curriculum and have the right to regulate it.

• Public Colleges Steering Your Mind In One Direction

  Mon Apr 9, 2007
  • There's a disturbing trend here. I understand the propensity for romance about democracy and citizen participation, but that is not the important issue on college campuses.

• Public Colleges Steering Your Mind In One Direction

  Mon Apr 9, 2007
  • One of the problematic features of higher education is specialty; many times the most extreme professors don't balance their views because they simply don't know the other side well enough. The focus shouldn't be on political leanings but on truth; unmotivated, disinterested scholarly inquiry.

• Public Colleges Steering Your Mind In One Direction

  Mon Apr 9, 2007
  • You're quite right about bias in academia. Just being on one side of the issue isn't the problem, though - it's the imposition of those opinions, few of which are based on solid, verifiable data/fact, on the student body that is unacceptable.