At 11:02 AM -0400 8/16/02, Ben Day used the term: >the ivory tower For reasons that I have already mentioned (with Census Bureau stats to support them), I think that the phrase "the ivory tower" should be retired. The plastic tower or the plaster-of-paris tower, perhaps, but no ivory. Higher education in the USA, like suburbs and automobiles, is now a mass-produced and mass-consumed working-class reality.
Education in general is a gigantic industry, even without counting such other employees as office workers, janitors, food preparation workers, etc. employed by schools at all levels: ***** Teachers 6.3 million: The number of U.S. teachers -- from prekindergarten to college -- as of 1999. <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-27.html> Students 72 million: Number of U.S. residents enrolled in school -- from nursery school to college -- in October 2000. Students comprised a ratio of more than 1 in 4 Americans age 3 and over. <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html> <http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01fff11.html> ***** -- Yoshie * Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>
