You're welcome. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, glen <g...@ropella.name> wrote:
> > Nice! That was, truly, a bizarre little screed. And although you don't > get credit for writing any of it, there is plenty of value in the > synthesis of others' ideas into something new. Congrats! Definitely > worthy of your troll status. ;-) > > > Douglas Roberts wrote at 09/27/2012 01:56 PM: > > It's a shame I stopped reading when I did on the wikipedia academic > elitism > > link when I got to the nugget I was looking for, because *this* nugget > is a > > real gem: > > > > "Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves > as > > members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: "Professors of > > humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct > knowledge > > of American life and no impact whatever on public > > policy."[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_elitism#cite_note-2> > > > > Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic > environments > > only those individuals who have engaged in > > scholarship<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_method> are > > deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do. It suggests that > > individuals who have not engaged in such scholarship are > > cranks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_(person)>. > > Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily > > Sun<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Daily_Sun> has > > described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy > > League<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League>, > > of having a "smug sense of success" because they believe "gaining > entrance > > into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself."[*citation > > needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed> > > *]" > > > -- > glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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