Timothy Noah Quotes
Universities are basically socialist institutions.
Noah, Timothy. "Chatterbox." Slate, The Slate Group.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
Horowitz who preaches against tenure and academic freedom gives his opponents wonderful ammunition to support the concepts. His definition of “idiot” is people who have what he believes is a naïve liberal view of politics whom he argues should not be paid to speak, write and possibly indoctrinate students. So a mathematics professor, teaching algebraic topology, but supports Hezbollah for example should be purged from his job. It is just that point of view that was responsible for having tenure and academic freedom in universities in the first place.
Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
Santorum’s view was not quite as absurd as this quotation would indicate. His concern was that he believed that colleges and universities were dominated by left wing, liberal faculty, who indoctrinate the students and turn them into Democrats or liberal Republicans. This he thought was bad for the country. The view is not complete paranoia. Higher Education is rarely indoctrination in America. Virtually every school has some politically conservative faculty as well as faculty who are in the political left and some are apolitical. However most of the good schools are liberal in the traditional meaning of the word and as it has been used in Europe and initially in the United States. This liberal tradition is characterized by openness to all ideas and points of view including those that the government or other institutions of society are sometimes uncomfortable with. This intellectual tolerance makes some ultraconservatives uncomfortable. However, other political conservatives are very “liberal” in the intellectual sense including most of the great conservative writers and philosophers and economists of the last centuries. There are people of all political and religious persuasions in most societies who are concerned that the ideas young people might be exposed to are harmful to them and detrimental to society. Most have more faith in young people and see the major role of education is to expose the student to new and different ideas for the student to consider. Santorum is one of the former; all his Republican opponents were of the other point of view.
Hypertrophy means: exaggerated or unnecessary growth or complexity
The returning GIs were entitled to have their tuition paid under the GI Bill of Rights. American educators were faced with a different population than what they were used to. These students were older and much more mature than the 17-19 year old regular students entering college. And they had been fighting a war since their high school education and their academic skills were rusty. With the Federal payment of tuition, the veteran students had a much more diverse socioeconomic background, and many did not have a very strong high school education to begin with. For a school like Brown, most of the veterans could not meet the usual entrance requirements. Brown and a few other schools created a special program where the veterans could refresh their high school work and take preparatory courses so that they could meet the school’s regular program requirements. It was called the “Veterans’ College”, and was designed for 2 years of study and then the veterans would enter regular college. The program and the others like it were very successful. The veterans worked much harder than the regular younger students. At Brown, of the 486 students attending Veterans’ College, 142 were admitted to the regular college after only 1 semester rather than the 2 years.
The “New” system had reformed very slowly {41427} and then had been spurred by Congress passing the Morrill Act which established land grant colleges in each state provided they taught practical things as well. President Buchanan twice vetoed the act as Southern states preferred the “old” style. But in 1862 it passed again and in one of the great American reforms in the midst of the Civil War, most of our great State Universities got their starts when Lincoln signed the act.
Everett was to become the President of Harvard. Private universities had been established by a single religion and typically had professorships of clergy of their religion, but when public universities were contemplated, new thinking was needed in the light of the American Constitution. Madison’s suggested solution is the one that America pursued. Separate the theological seminaries from the public universities.
1st Baron Macaulay. Ireland had no Catholic university at the time. Yet the issues surrounding a potential Catholic university were colored by the politics of the day. Should Protestants attend? Who would select and supervise the faculty ? What about tuition and fees? Should politics be taught? From which point of view? Even academic scholars like Macaulay could not grapple with the issues and hence all action was delayed. See {617687} for a contemporary lay point of view.
Metternich called a conference of the heads of all the German states to deal with what they perceived as a dangerous liberalism enveloping German society. Metternich did not personally draft all the resolutions but he controlled the conclave and all the resolutions which are usually ascribed to him.
Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958) is an American journalist and author. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic, where he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.
