Re: On being a noncombatant in the culture wars

At 09:50 AM 3/3/2006, Ted Davis wrote:
>"...Forget about your career for once in your life. This was the
>core message from everyone I contacted. Raised to be workaholics,
>students today have developed a "carapace, an enveloping shell that
>hinders them from seeing the full, rich variety of intellectual and
>practical opportunities offered by the world," observes Charles Hill
>of Yale. You've got to burst out of that narrow careerist mentality.
>Of course, it will be hard when you're surrounded by so many narrow
>careerist professors building their little subdisciplinary empires.

### "Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most
dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more
influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know
what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
" -- Thomas Sowell

Love it! ~ Janice
Received on Fri Mar 3 11:17:59 2006