Re: faith

Posted by glen ropella on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Faith-tp7580633p7580803.html


Nice!  That was, truly, a bizarre little screed.  And although you don't
get credit for writing any of it, there is plenty of value in the
synthesis of others' ideas into something new.  Congrats!  Definitely
worthy of your troll status. ;-)


Douglas Roberts wrote at 09/27/2012 01:56 PM:

> It's a shame I stopped reading when I did on the wikipedia academic elitism
> link when I got to the nugget I was looking for, because *this* nugget is a
> real gem:
>
> "Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as
> members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: "Professors of
> humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge
> of American life and no impact whatever on public
> policy."[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_elitism#cite_note-2>
>
> Academic elitism suggests that in highly competitive academic environments
> only those individuals who have engaged in
> scholarship<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_method> are
> deemed to have anything worthwhile to say, or do. It suggests that
> individuals who have not engaged in such scholarship are
> cranks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_(person)>.
> Steven Zhang of the Cornell Daily
> Sun<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Daily_Sun> has
> described the graduates of elite schools, especially those in the Ivy
> League<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League>,
> of having a "smug sense of success" because they believe "gaining entrance
> into the Ivy League is an accomplishment unto itself."[*citation
> needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
> *]"

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glen

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