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  1. Jul 2025
    1. 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.

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    1. Whenever, as was perhaps the case in an-cient Greece, the intuitive man handles his weapons more authoritatively and victoriously than his opponent, then, under favorable circum-stances, a culture can take shape and art's mas-tery owr life can be established.

      Quote from "The Rock" (1996)

      [about killing]

      Stanley Goodspeed: How do you... do it?

      John Mason: I was trained by the best. British intelligence. But in retrospect I would rather have been a poet. Or a farmer.

      Stanley Goodspeed: Okay.