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The passive-aggressive student
I’m working this year with several thoughtful, independent-minded grad students right now, and this afternoon I realized that I’ve been quite lucky the last few years in terms of my experiences with grad students (and I hope the converse as well!). Since that hasn’t always been the case, I thought I’d put down my thoughts while […]
Brief note justifying the lack of productivity this week
I have gotten less done this week in Seattle than I expected. I did the right thing and walked around the city as much as I could when not in the AFT convention’s business meetings. Since Seattle has real hills, this is healthy exercise, and I used the Pike Place Market six blocks from the […]
Why is a college education like a tulip bulb?
Dean Dad has one plausible response to the latest installation of the “college is the next asset bubble to burst” argument, and every time I come across it I grind my teeth, think of ravens and writing desks, and go on. At least Glenn Reynolds is neither an economist nor an historian, or I’d accuse […]
The value of college III
Part of the value of a good college education is that much of it is surplus. In the same way that the early nineteenth-century education of women could have been perceived as superfluous, a good deal of what students learn could be seen as not directly or immediately useful in their lives. To some economists, […]
The value of college II
An offhand reference I made last week to Lisa Delpit is nagging at me this evening. It’s the part of Other People’s Children (1995) where she talks about the existence of codes of power (what others would call tacit knowledge) and how one of the jobs of good schools should be to lay those bare, […]