A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education

Cypress said:
Do you have a habit of leaping to conclusions about people you don't even know?
I was born in the Northeast, lived in Maryland until I was 22, and did my freshman and sophomore years at University of Maryland before transferring to a UC school.

You are very strange.
I stated a simple fact that most of the elite research universities are in the north, northeast, and California. A fact that is not even remotely controversial. But it took you like two dozen posts to grudgingly admit I was correct and there was nothing factually wrong with what I stated.
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I admit, I've never once heard you say you were from the East Coast.

And congrats on 'winning' your strawman argument. I'm sure it feels good.

I'll repeat, all this has nothing to do with education per se. It's you and Walt engaging in a political identity thing with many of today's elite schools (we'll use the current top 20) currently being in states that you agree with. That's all this is about.

It's why when we look at the history of these states politically it throws a monkey wrench into the equation.

But if this is what you two need, as my sister-in-law tells me, "you do you boo".
 
Cypress said:
Who cares? You thought about this for three minutes. Doesn't matter. All widely-accepted college ranking entities, like USN&WR, Forbes and Time, routinely rank Harvard, Columbia, Yale, MIT, Princeton, etc. among the upper echelon of America's elite universities.

I'm not buying the bullshit that USN&WR, Forbes, Time got it all wrong and obscure poster Murph63 spent three minutes and got it all right.

It is so entrenched in conventional wisdom that only the retarded or the thoroughly dishonest would invest time claiming that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford are not really among America's top echelon of universities.
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Hey, you slag off southern universities you don't even have a clue about. I don't much care what a guy who couldn't hack grad school thinks about academe.

LOL.
 
Cypress said:
So you are on a political message board daily, but you virtually never mention or comment on the politics of our federal government?

So why are you on this board then? Is it just to lurk and read posts by me, Dutch Uncle, and Owl?
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Dutch flew the coop after doxxing himself and being humiliated dozens of times.
Owl has actually made overtures to make nice with me but rarely have any contact with her.
You? The same insufferably pompous, pretentious windbag with delusions of sophistication.
 
Cypress said:
So bottom line, neither you nor Matt can name anyone who isn't mentally retarded who is unaware that MIT, Harvard, Princeton are universally acknowledged as among America's uppermost echelon of elite schools.
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Mentally retarded. You mock the disabled just like Doc Douche does! You are a prince.

So much for your "morality". Blah blah blah.
 
Moosakofsky said:
Dutch flew the coop after doxxing himself and being humiliated dozens of times.
Owl has actually made overtures to make nice with me but rarely have any contact with her.
You? The same insufferably pompous, pretentious windbag with delusions of sophistication.
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So the answer is yes? You aren't on a political message to discuss politics, you're here to lurk people you have a strange fascination with
 
murph63 said:
Mentally retarded. You mock the disabled just like Doc Douche does! You are a prince.

So much for your "morality". Blah blah blah.
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So all these collective efforts to scold me for daring to state most of the elite universities are in the north-northeast have done nothing to prove I was factually incorrect.

Just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian is a weak message board argument.
 
Cypress said:
Riiiight, I'm "pretentious " 🤣. I've been openly admitting I attended a public state school and didn't have the grades for the Ivy League, while you have been boasting that multiple elite schools begged you to attend but you turned them down! 🤣
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I'd delete that if I could. It was a bit much.
 
murph63 said:
Hey, you slag off southern universities you don't even have a clue about. I don't much care what a guy who couldn't hack grad school thinks about academe.

LOL.
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^ Once again, no argument was presented showing I was incorrect in stating the overwhelming majority of top ranked elite universities are in the north-northeast
 
Cypress said:
^ Once again, no argument was presented showing I was incorrect in stating the overwhelming majority of top ranked elite universities are in the north-northeast
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Well that's where the American University system started, so it stands to reason that's the case.
Some of those schools pre-date The United States.
Pretty sure FL schools were #1 in the nation around the time I was in there.
 
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Hume said:
When you look at a culture, and you want to ask yourself: “Well, how did we go from Weimar Germany to Nazism?”
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The disaster of the Treaty of Versailles.
Hume said:
Obviously, education is going to be a part of that, but it’s not in any way going to be the whole of it.
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A treaty is not education, Hugo.
Hume said:
I don’t buy that Nazism is proof that higher learning doesn’t work.
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A treaty is not education, Hugo.
Hume said:
The point of fact is that the Nazis were very much against higher education in many ways and wanted to constrain and control it.
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Is that why Germany developed the first jet engine, the first pulsejet, the advanced Panzer tanks, the Volkswagon bug, liquid fueled rockets, the Enigma coding machine, the horizontally opposed engine, the first practical mechanism to shoot through your propeller without damaging it, the Fischer-Tropsche process, the Haber-Bosch process, the Ostwald process, calcium carbide, most synthetic color dyes, most medications (including aspirin),

Much of this developed DURING WW2, Hugo.
Hume said:
www.nytimes.com

Opinion | A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.

Making the case for a “useless” education.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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You still reading this tripe?
 
Into the Night said:
The disaster of the Treaty of Versailles.

A treaty is not education, Hugo.

A treaty is not education, Hugo.

Is that why Germany developed the first jet engine, the first pulsejet, the advanced Panzer tanks, the Volkswagon bug, liquid fueled rockets, the Enigma coding machine, the horizontally opposed engine, the first practical mechanism to shoot through your propeller without damaging it, the Fischer-Tropsche process, the Haber-Bosch process, the Ostwald process, calcium carbide, most synthetic color dyes, most medications (including aspirin),

Much of this developed DURING WW2, Hugo.

You still reading this tripe?
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shut up you stupid asshole
 
Cypress said:
So all these collective efforts to scold me for daring to state most of the elite universities are in the north-northeast have done nothing to prove I was factually incorrect.

Just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian is a weak message board argument.
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Go learn what 'fact' means, illiterate.
Try to maintain context while you're at it.
 
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