Parents, many of whom sacrifice even some necessities of [5] life to send their children to college, ought to be interested in what treatment their children may receive; the prestige of a university is no assurance of a sound educational process.

..and Amen brother. I will of course - go back and eventually read it all, guessing already about much he clearly plans to say very well. Publish and perish (the students) .. indeed. First-hand testimonial. 'Our' grad student teechurs were.. harried and harassed by Their research/duties elsewhere and, save one or two -- utterly unsuited to teach anyone (especially via the nepotism of texts by Emeritus drones still around - who couldn't teach either, in their day). Yada yada.

Written in '70s, it says? How typical that he has been ignored. I shall be most interested to see what shrift (long or short) he gives the proposition that, Murica is an anti-intellectual culture - and the consequences of Murica now being the most technology besotted 'culture' in history: while remaining generally also the least techno-ept among the average consumers of all that stuff (?)

{sigh}


Ashton
(Given the current crescendo in overall daily noise-level - it may be too late to follow his (whatever) Rx for reform) :(