Monday, September 02, 2013

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

Via SULLY we see Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Xmastime?,  fumes about the future of college:
What actually will happen to higher ed, when the breaking point comes, will be an extension of what has already happened, what money wants to see happen. Another market-driven disaster will be understood as a disaster of socialism, requiring an ever deeper penetration of the university by market rationality...every democratic movement from the Civil War to the 1960s aimed to bring higher ed to an ever widening circle, to make it more affordable. Ours is the generation that stood by gawking while a handful of parasites and billionaires smashed it for their own benefit.
Sounds like us, alright.

(my bold)

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