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Someone who remains silent can be seen as giving consent. Symbolic degrees encapsulate the positive and negative parts of an institution's reputation.
by someguydave 5y ago
Someone who remains silent can be seen as giving consent. Symbolic degrees encapsulate the positive and negative parts of an institution's reputation.
- sokoloff 5y agoIndeed. All kinds and manners of logical fallacies and non-sequiturs are present in the world. You can try to live your life in a way that attempts to prevent or minimize these in others' minds, but it quickly converges on being a denial of service attack on your own capacity and the root of the error isn't your responsibility (and probably not in your capability) to address.
- someguydave 5y agoPursuing self-improvement regardless of what others might think would probably lead one to avoid university altogether.
- visarga 5y agoor they don't want to become activists themselves because they are there to learn, activist wars are eternal and college a limited time
- someguydave 5y agoGetting a degree is not the same as being "there to learn". A symbolic performance includes the meaning of the symbols.