"In the Basement of the Ivory Tower" [The Atlantic]

Professor X's comments on the state of acquiring a university education is summarized at the top of the attached article by the editors at The Atlantic thusly*:

"The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth."

Having served time at the university, state college and community college levels of academia, and having had similar if not identical experiences as "Professor X," I not only recommend this commentary to anyone with even the faintest glimmer of a scintilla's iota of interest in education -- I charge you on pain of academic "water-boarding" to take it to heart! [Damn...did that sentence even make sense!!??]

Of course everyone has a right [a negative, not a positive right] to a university eduction. And everyone has a duty to be educated. But there is something fundamentally wrong with our current educational apparatus, from the ground up, I might add.

It begins with our basic assumptions about education...our thinking about education.

Some fundamental "rethinking" is long overdue.

"Unschoolers" have one approach to this enigma -- and it may not be the only approach -- but I think they would agree with the notion that there is a problem.

* Yes, I know "thusly" is a pointless synonym for "thus." So....????!