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
Most of the private and virtually all of the public system of education in the USA is a Madrassa. Teachers and staff are afraid of the bomb and the beheading knife and enthralled by the petroleum, drug and arms money wielded by Salafist and Shiite hegemons. So, their institutions are Madrassas. Illustrations of the fact are legion. So let us call it what it is: USA System of Madrassas.
Madrassa Harvard Drew Faust
Madrassa Princeton Christopher L. Eisgruber
Madrassa UC-Berkeley Nicholas B. Dirks
Madrassa Yale Peter Salovey
Madrassa Penn Amy Gutmann
Madrassa Columbia Lee C. Bollinger
Madrassa Wellesley H. Kim Bottomly
Madrassa Georgetown John J. DeGioia
Madrassa Notre Dame John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
Madrassa Stanford John Hennessy
Madrassa UC-Los Angeles Gene D. Block
Madrassa UT-Austin Bill Powers
Madrassa UW-Madison Rebecca Blank
Madrassa UC-Irvine Howard Gillman
Madrassa Chicago Robert J. Zimmer
etc.
Update 1: The Do Not Attend / Do Not Support List Of American Colleges And Universities.
Update 2: Islamophobia, the irrational fear that Caliphists will act the way they usually do.
Update 3: USA on-campus drug and alcohol arrests.
Update 4: 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 5: A most compelling post, thank you! Puts me in mind of Teilhard de Chardin, who saw in the hard sciences of geological and paleontological process and result the phenomenology of divine life, of God alive and kicking, so to speak. A novel immanentalism of sorts, precedented but unique in the history of Christian thought. Here Fernandez sees in structural engineering attitudes phenomenological actualities of social engineering assumptions, deftly expressed. Other commenters also appreciate this post’s brilliant helpfulness.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
