In article <c9uh04pjrki1ljvnjhmvnjf1giv1bd4uei@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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."
You should care about it because cor****ations have one and only one
goal: to maximize return to their shareholders. They are "paying the
bills" for that purpose only, and to that end have a vested interest
in brainwa****ng the public mind into the belief that the cor****ate
system and the public good are essentially one and the same.
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