Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
At Power Line today, occasional columnist Ammo Grrrll contributed her second charming discussion of microaggressions, a leftie neo-logism meant, as all leftie-speak is, to spread panic and chaos.
I took the opportunity to add a comment reprising a theme I long have sounded:
Simple solution: reverse the economics of ed. The customer is always right. So, put the professor/school in the role of customer. Let them pay (full ride plus salary) the student to study at their school. The student will do their work and not bellyache because the professor/school is the customer, the one buying, the one always right. The student then is the seller obliged to provide a product that pleases the customer, the professor/school.
Right now, the student is the customer — buys from the professor/school — so they are always right and will get away with whatever their and their parents’ precious little hearts connive. The solution here is easy. All the name schools have plenty of endowment to reverse the economics as described. The public schools have taxpayers as “endowment.” Most second-tier schools probably have enough to reverse the economics as described. Let third-tier schools close.
This reversed economics of ed also would deflate the malicious ignorance of promoting universal post-secondary ed. And it would remove the utterly evil act of sending a young life into the world saddled with debt.
Update 1: Related: It’s Not Easy Going Green.
Update 2: Ignore The Dire Warnings About Our Lives Because It’s Just Hysteria
Update 3: Let schools pay students to matriculate. School, like everything else in life, is a market, one way and another, and in a market, the customer is always right, one way and another. If the student pays, they are the customer and control the market, as now. If the school pays, they are the customer and control the market, such as at our country’s service academies.
Also, the hyper-ideologizing of schools means the market for education is saturated and a very large number of said schools are superfluous and deserve closure.
Also, as long as politicians and bureaucrats can seduce schools with money, and as long as every smallest matter is taken to be a government responsibility — i.e., opportunities for graft unchecked — schools are headed for their own gotterdamerungen because their economics and their ideologies, both, disfavor their longevity.
Pacifism for you, activism for me.
Suppression for you, expression for me.
Closed society for you, open society for me.
Their hypocrisy quotient is self-promoters’ nemesis.
Update 4: George Handlery: The Structure Of Education Is The Structure Of Faith
Update 5: “It doesn’t even have obvious racial content, though it is, perhaps, vaguely leftist in tone.” I commented:
It is overtly globalist in tone. Wilson would approve.
The customer is always right. The students are the customer. Damn skippy they’ll be back. With the freight they’re paying? They’ll be back, oh you betcha. And one of these days they’ll have their Savio. And then, the U will be paying reparations, just for starters.
Now, if the U paid the students to attend …. Then the U would be the customer. And always right. Anciently, that is how a guru accepted a student. It’s all about the economics of the relationship, as to who controls the flow of affairs. The customer does.
Update 6: Sean, all Ivy divinity schools today are Communist. None is Christian. None wants to be. None is ecumenical, either. Communist all. In a few years all will be Salafi/Shi’a blend. That will radiate out to the universities in which they lodge. From there to the culture and from the culture to the politics.
The only point at which you can right that wrong is in the culture.
The culture has to want to produce an education system, starting with seminaries, worthy of Americans and their freedom of religion, which is their most precious protected right and therefore the one Azlan and Co. are willing to die for by attacking.
Update 7: The Racial Gap in Student Performance
Update 8: First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education
Update 9: We Will Never Fix Campus Indoctrination Until We Cut College Subsidies
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
