The Ivies of course, because we as a society made a decision 100 years ago that these people should be our leaders.
The one hope I have with the end of affirmative action is that we throw the idea of some Ivy elite leading us on the ash heap and light it on fire.
Most of our best presidents have been generals (Washington, Grant, Ike) and graduates of state or small private colleges (LBJ, Biden, Jefferson, McKinley, Reagan). Some did not go to college or had no four year degree (Truman, Jackson). Our greatest POTUS had no formal education (Lincoln).
For every Obama, Kennedy and Roosevelt(s) that you get from Ivies, you get a Trump, Ford, Hayes, Wilson, and The Adamses.
Not to mention the Ivy League Industrial Complex, which simply exists to shift money around and between each other, usually at the expense of everyone else. Ackman and his relationship with Ramaswamy is a perfect example.
tRumpistsтДв are all fascist or fascist-enablers, and you under no circumstances have to hand it to them. Defending the firing of Liz Magill is defending Bill Ackman, which is defending Elon Musk, which is defending Alex Jones, which is defending Donald tRumpтДв.
Exactly. Really tired of the constant drumbeat about how higher ed is morally depraved. Compared to MAGA? Give me the higher ed folks any day, ridiculous as some of it is.
I'd settle for Charlie at least once in a while saying that the vast majority of us do our jobs the right way and get a hell of a lot of positive outcomes for the many students who look to us to help prepare them for a successful future. Sadly, that seems not to be a part of his arsenal as he defaults into personal biases and settles for the intellectually lazy approach of painting us all with a very broad brush ("colossal moral failure").
We are being asked consistently to put ourselves in Israeli & Jewish shoes; but no-one at the Bulwark is asking us, or themselves, to imagine the Palestinian side. Why is that?
Charlie, bless him, continues to deliberately conflate being pro-Palestine with being anti-Hamas, although he for once didn't mention the beheaded babies that are at best dubious and are still, after two months, not verified. Yes, Palestinians did elect Hamas more than 15 years ago and if your entire family had just been obliterated by an American-built bomb fired deliberately on your apartment building by the IDF, you would quite possibly express support for Hamas. That doesn't mean that all Palestinians support the Hamas raid of 10/7 which was and should be condemned as utterly wrong. However, that doesn't make Israel right in its campaign to obliterate Hamas by bombing the entire Gaza Strip into nothing but rubble, killing many, many thousands of people and creating a humanitarian disaster for those still alive.
This is telling on a variety of fronts. From recent news about that institutions ethical standards to the relative importance we put on elite athletics vs. elite education, and everything in-between.
The irony... UM got the moniker "Harvard of the West" because it famously allowed Jews to attend which Harvard (and many of the other "Ivies") was loathe to do. Not because of any (except in the minds of the shunned students) educational equivalency.
There are roughly 60k students at ivy league schools some modest percentage of whom behave foolishly.
There are tens of millions of trumpists who are prepared to vote in fascism.
Which problem deserves greater attention?
The Ivies of course, because we as a society made a decision 100 years ago that these people should be our leaders.
The one hope I have with the end of affirmative action is that we throw the idea of some Ivy elite leading us on the ash heap and light it on fire.
Most of our best presidents have been generals (Washington, Grant, Ike) and graduates of state or small private colleges (LBJ, Biden, Jefferson, McKinley, Reagan). Some did not go to college or had no four year degree (Truman, Jackson). Our greatest POTUS had no formal education (Lincoln).
For every Obama, Kennedy and Roosevelt(s) that you get from Ivies, you get a Trump, Ford, Hayes, Wilson, and The Adamses.
Not to mention the Ivy League Industrial Complex, which simply exists to shift money around and between each other, usually at the expense of everyone else. Ackman and his relationship with Ramaswamy is a perfect example.
I agree. Listening to some unimportant school administer at a exclusive University seems like a complete waste of energy.
tRumpistsтДв are all fascist or fascist-enablers, and you under no circumstances have to hand it to them. Defending the firing of Liz Magill is defending Bill Ackman, which is defending Elon Musk, which is defending Alex Jones, which is defending Donald tRumpтДв.
Which side are you on?
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Exactly. Really tired of the constant drumbeat about how higher ed is morally depraved. Compared to MAGA? Give me the higher ed folks any day, ridiculous as some of it is.
I'd settle for Charlie at least once in a while saying that the vast majority of us do our jobs the right way and get a hell of a lot of positive outcomes for the many students who look to us to help prepare them for a successful future. Sadly, that seems not to be a part of his arsenal as he defaults into personal biases and settles for the intellectually lazy approach of painting us all with a very broad brush ("colossal moral failure").
You are right there. I know many fine teachers who teach critical thinking and don't pontificate as if they had all the answers.
We are being asked consistently to put ourselves in Israeli & Jewish shoes; but no-one at the Bulwark is asking us, or themselves, to imagine the Palestinian side. Why is that?
Charlie, bless him, continues to deliberately conflate being pro-Palestine with being anti-Hamas, although he for once didn't mention the beheaded babies that are at best dubious and are still, after two months, not verified. Yes, Palestinians did elect Hamas more than 15 years ago and if your entire family had just been obliterated by an American-built bomb fired deliberately on your apartment building by the IDF, you would quite possibly express support for Hamas. That doesn't mean that all Palestinians support the Hamas raid of 10/7 which was and should be condemned as utterly wrong. However, that doesn't make Israel right in its campaign to obliterate Hamas by bombing the entire Gaza Strip into nothing but rubble, killing many, many thousands of people and creating a humanitarian disaster for those still alive.
That total number of Ivy League students wouldn't come close to filling the University of Michigan's football stadium.
This is telling on a variety of fronts. From recent news about that institutions ethical standards to the relative importance we put on elite athletics vs. elite education, and everything in-between.
Michigan is, "The Harvard of the West." /s
Or it could be that Harvard is the Michigan of the East. ;-)
The irony... UM got the moniker "Harvard of the West" because it famously allowed Jews to attend which Harvard (and many of the other "Ivies") was loathe to do. Not because of any (except in the minds of the shunned students) educational equivalency.