{"id":1742,"date":"2008-05-14T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-05-14T21:31:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T21:31:35","slug":"the_atlantic_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Annoys Me Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a believer that the current US higher-education system is dysfunctional, and that it is at some level a Ponzi scheme that creates PhD’s who then get teaching jobs, and ever-expand university-level education because more PhD’s are minted than there are seats for them. This happens in concert with the devaluing – both economically and culturally – the craft work done by people who typically haven’t had college degrees as a gateway to their careers.<\/p>\n

So I was happy to see an article on this – ‘In the Basement of the Ivory Tower<\/a>,’ subtitled ‘The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a “college of last resort” explains why.’<\/p>\n

Until, of course I read it and I immediately understood why the author wrote under a pseudonym as ‘Professor X’ – because forgetting the students whose efforts he devalues, anyone who isn’t deeply elitist would be tempted to go bitchslap him into sensibility with a copy of Strunk and White.<\/p>\n

Go read the article, and see if maybe your reaction to it mirrors mine:<\/p>\n

“Maybe it’s just that you suck as a teacher…<\/i>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal asks Professor X: Maybe it’s not them, it’s you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}