{"id":5781,"date":"2015-09-27T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-09-26T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T04:04:56","slug":"worth-sharing-rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/27\/worth-sharing-rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education-national-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Rex Murphy: Institutes of lower education | National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mattressprotest.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Some universities \u2014 and, in particularly, some humanities departments \u2014 have, over the last few decades, wandered far from the primary purpose of what these institutions were designed for: to teach what is worth knowing; to train the intellect; to acquaint students with, and help them appreciate, the glories of the human mind and its finest achievements.Concomitantly, they have descended into pseudo-studies, become infatuated with low pop culture, become obsessed with faddish social justice issues, turned hypervigilant on their students\u2019 \u201ccomfort levels\u201d and are pruriently concerned with sexism narratives, cause politics and \u201cidentity\u201d zealotry. They bear almost no resemblance to the institutions of higher learning \u2014 higher in its full applications \u2014 that they, at least ideally, have always aspired to be.Junk in, junk out, is a variation on the computer axiom. Any institution that puts Madonna and hegemony in the same sentence, never mind in the title of a thesis, has cut the cords on the balloon and is floating off on some vague, directionless journey to nowhere in particular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education\">Rex Murphy: Institutes of lower education | National Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5781'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5781);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5781);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5781);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Some universities \u2014 and, in particularly, some humanities departments \u2014 have, over the last few decades, wandered far from the primary purpose of what these institutions were designed for: to teach what is worth knowing; to train the intellect; to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/27\/worth-sharing-rex-murphy-institutes-of-lower-education-national-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,369,24],"tags":[388,41,393],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6846,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/","url_meta":{"origin":5781,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Why do we forget so much of what we read? 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Indeed, higher education globally continues to follow a relatively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6842,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/15\/worth-sharing-why-i-stopped-writing-on-my-students-papers\/","url_meta":{"origin":5781,"position":2},"title":"Worth Sharing: Why I Stopped Writing on My Students\u2019 Papers","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A professor decides it\u2019s time to reconceive how he comments on essay assignments. This is GREAT! I have taken to requiring my students to do reflections (3 Up; 3 Down - Thanks for the great idea,\u00a0Ben Sawyer!) on their work and it has a similar effect. 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