RE: [Marxism] SDS

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sue McPherson wrote, "Every single belief that I''ve held in my life has
been torn apart. The only one that persists is that merit isn't what
really counts in university. Of course, I didnt' come to hold that
belief until later in my university career, when it all ended."

Well, that's not a belief but a clearly demonstrable fact that should
have been evident the first time you sat down to write a check to
one....

But it also inconsistent with the assertion that students (or
professors) are all the same.  If they were, differing merit wouldn't
enter into it.

Still, if you go to the SDS website and read the nearly 44-year-old Port
Huron statement, you'll find the observation that "Colleges develop
teaching machines, mass-class techniques, and TV education to replace
teachers: not to proliferate knowledge or to assist the qualified
professors now, but to 'cut costs in education and make the academic
community more efficient and less wasteful.' Technology, which could be
a blessing to society, becomes more and more a sinister threat to
humanistic and rational enterprise."

Decades before "distance learning" and the internet.  So maybe the SDS
deserves a little focus.

ML







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