12-19-2012, 04:59 PM
Thanks everyone for the kind comments.
I did intend for there to be a thinly veiled sarcastic edge.
Our (UK) education institutions have stood for eons (since medievial times) to supposedly represent the best of the best of intellect.
A famous Uk talk show host (Parkinson) said it all for me, when he announced his decision to retire. He said, (The gist of...not exact quote) that he felt that he had run out of interesting people to interview. Nobody had anything to say anymore, there was no depth to them.
I Picked on Oxford because so many that I greatly admire came through these doors. C.S Lewis, Tolkien, Lewis carol, John & Charles Wesley & Whitefield, John Betjeman. To name but a few. There is a huge list of interesting people who lived extraordinary lives. I would struggle to name one person who has passed through from the last 20yrs.
Where now the snicker-snack?.....Oh yeh that's right I forgot, the thought police confiscated it because it was deemed too dangerous and issued a plastic spoon instead.
So as someone who did not even go to higher school /college, nevermind univeristy, I'm deeply dissapointed in the current best of the best. However, i don't think it is because they are less inteligent, It is more that they've not been taught how to think for themselves...thier intelligence has been raped and now lies sillied and soiled..
I did intend for there to be a thinly veiled sarcastic edge.
Our (UK) education institutions have stood for eons (since medievial times) to supposedly represent the best of the best of intellect.
A famous Uk talk show host (Parkinson) said it all for me, when he announced his decision to retire. He said, (The gist of...not exact quote) that he felt that he had run out of interesting people to interview. Nobody had anything to say anymore, there was no depth to them.
I Picked on Oxford because so many that I greatly admire came through these doors. C.S Lewis, Tolkien, Lewis carol, John & Charles Wesley & Whitefield, John Betjeman. To name but a few. There is a huge list of interesting people who lived extraordinary lives. I would struggle to name one person who has passed through from the last 20yrs.
Where now the snicker-snack?.....Oh yeh that's right I forgot, the thought police confiscated it because it was deemed too dangerous and issued a plastic spoon instead.
So as someone who did not even go to higher school /college, nevermind univeristy, I'm deeply dissapointed in the current best of the best. However, i don't think it is because they are less inteligent, It is more that they've not been taught how to think for themselves...thier intelligence has been raped and now lies sillied and soiled..