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The fundamental flaw in this article is that it assumes that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason, or at least non mutually-exclus
by phendrenad2 3y ago
The fundamental flaw in this article is that it assumes that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason, or at least non mutually-exclusive reasons. I think it's likely that people on the political right dislike it for being too "left", and people on the political left dislike it for not being "left" enough. It's also hard to tell how many people dislike higher education for some other reason, such as the author's reason (plagiarism and fake data scandals).
- sfink 3y agoJust as a data point that ultimately reinforces your main point, one of the reasons I am disillusioned with the higher education corporate complex is that as someone on the political left, I dislike it for being too left. It's not the what, it's the why. (Though as a result, a lot of the what is bullshit these days too.)
- gotoeleven 3y agothe "assum[ption] that everyone suddenly dislikes higher education due to the same reason" is not a premise of this article. It has a thesis--that people with a range of political beliefs distrust academia more than they have in the past because academia has become more dishonest--and then gives a bunch of examples of the dishonesty. Surely it goes without saying that people may have other reasons to distrust academia! Maybe you distrust academia now because you were promised a lavish sinecure in exchange for how diverse you will look on a glossy brochure but you lost it because racists found duplicative language in your otherwise stellar academic work.