The World Wide Wade <aderamey.addw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <2r08045f059dc7j1go1792m3hbvfeovbic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >"It's superficial from the get-go," he said. "You do something in
>> >order for you to get the goodie, and that devalues the act itself."
>>
>> Guess what - that is true of most of life. Most people work at their
>> jobs to get a paycheck. They go to school to get grades and the
>> ticket to get the job with the higher paycheck. Real life has become
>> much more a matter of economics than was apparent a while back (it
>> probably was just as much the case back then, but when only the elite
>> and wealthy went to college, there was a possibility of a non-monetary
>> reward (academic esteem) outweighing money as a motivator. It's still
>> true for a few, but not for the majority of the academic marketplace,
>> which isn't buying what educational purists are selling.
>>
>> lojbab
>
>Very poor argument - reads like an apology for further cor****ate
>infiltration into higher education.
Why should I care about "further cor****ate infiltration into higher
education"? As long as the cor****ates are paying the bills, which
will probably be increasingly true as costs rise, it is pretty much
inevitable. I can see some negative consequences, but as you say
"They will be adults and can live with the consequences no matter
what."
lojbab
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