[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Krimel to Platt]
I did it looked like a knee jerk reaction to rumors of change. 

[Arlo]
No kidding. What a shock. Liberals are to blame to blame for everything. The
Academy is destroying America. "Just right-wing politics" as Pirsig called it,
comes up again and again and again.

But since this came up a while back in the Church of Reason thread, I'll
mention it again here. Before you can look into "fixing" education, you need to
know why you are educating in the first place. What is the purpose of an
educated citizenry? Voting? Labor? "Because its the right thing"? Democratic
participation? Technological advancements? To meet the needs of manufacturing
and industry? "Better job"? To separate the wheat from the chaff (social
darwinism)?

If there is a crisis in education, I'd posit that it starts here.