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**heennaRaf** · 07-15-2008, 08:10 PM

The author can't speak with his plumber, and blames Yale for that. Even though I bet he's never interacted with people in lower economic "classes" before or after college. And he probably went to Yale in part to avoid those people. Then at the end he says liberal arts colleges are the way to go. Because those guys at Williams sure can speak to plumbers?

I'm pretty sure the whole sense that God loves him more than other people is more his fault and less his college's. Or maybe his whole article is true as far as it applies to graduate students.

He complains that he can't talk to the plumber, but then frets that undergrads are too practical and don't like to study "Bildung" (which, when I think about it, is the absolute perfect word for "building up the soul." I'm using this word more often).

He gives no reason to think schools admit people only for their analytical intelligence. They probably should, but they don't. There are all sorts of non Asians, Olympians, writers, activists, idiots at all these schools.

He thinks people at Cleveland State don't get second chances. I'd imagine Cleveland State is a second chance for a lot of people. And is he actually saying that people at Cleveland State adhere to deadlines more rigorously than Yale students? I'd take that ****ing bet.

In conclusion forthwith I can't believe this closet case thinks there are "few out lesbians and no gender queers" on college campuses. There are entire clubs for such people. The writer must be an activist. His complaint seems to be mostly about dress. Nobody dresses like a hippie anymore. But that has to do with the evolving fashion sense of the last forty years, not class. You know what would happen if you dressed like "hippies or punks or art-school types" at Cleveland State University? You'd get the **** kicked out of you, is what.

Indeed in fact whereforth, the author ultimately seems to be disgruntled with modern life. He doesn't like that academics has become a systematic, gradual, efficient process. You can't sit around your whole life and study poetry to find your Bildung. You can't write unsupported Big Idea papers and have them taken as Gospel. And you have to in some way try to contribute to the economy and society around you, including plumbers.

I wonder how the plumber would react if he knew somebody wrote an entire essay about the two minutes before he fixed some idiot's toilet.

This is a crap article. Nothing Bildung about it.

07-15-2008, 08:10 PM	#25
heennaRaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 504 Senior Member	The author can't speak with his plumber, and blames Yale for that. Even though I bet he's never interacted with people in lower economic "classes" before or after college. And he probably went to Yale in part to avoid those people. Then at the end he says liberal arts colleges are the way to go. Because those guys at Williams sure can speak to plumbers? I'm pretty sure the whole sense that God loves him more than other people is more his fault and less his college's. Or maybe his whole article is true as far as it applies to graduate students. He complains that he can't talk to the plumber, but then frets that undergrads are too practical and don't like to study "Bildung" (which, when I think about it, is the absolute perfect word for "building up the soul." I'm using this word more often). He gives no reason to think schools admit people only for their analytical intelligence. They probably should, but they don't. There are all sorts of non Asians, Olympians, writers, activists, idiots at all these schools. He thinks people at Cleveland State don't get second chances. I'd imagine Cleveland State is a second chance for a lot of people. And is he actually saying that people at Cleveland State adhere to deadlines more rigorously than Yale students? I'd take that **ing bet. In conclusion forthwith I can't believe this closet case thinks there are "few out lesbians and no gender queers" on college campuses. There are entire clubs for such people. The writer must be an activist. His complaint seems to be mostly about dress. Nobody dresses like a hippie anymore. But that has to do with the evolving fashion sense of the last forty years, not class. You know what would happen if you dressed like "hippies or punks or art-school types" at Cleveland State University? You'd get the ** kicked out of you, is what. Indeed in fact whereforth, the author ultimately seems to be disgruntled with modern life. He doesn't like that academics has become a systematic, gradual, efficient process. You can't sit around your whole life and study poetry to find your Bildung. You can't write unsupported Big Idea papers and have them taken as Gospel. And you have to in some way try to contribute to the economy and society around you, including plumbers. I wonder how the plumber would react if he knew somebody wrote an entire essay about the two minutes before he fixed some idiot's toilet. This is a crap article. Nothing Bildung about it.
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