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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Reality asserts itself - and the trades are always necessary, while university degrees are less so.

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

"leftist puritanism" Good rhetoric! Hit 'em where it hurts!

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

I can't quite speak to the professorship, I was a teaching assistant in physics and engineering at the junior, senior, and graduate levels, both in academic and lab practice classes. But at the University where I did my Doctorate, they tended to rotate the classes among the appropriate professors, so a professor would teach a class for about 4 years and then move on to another. Creating those lecture notes was an insane amount of work - and the student was probably best off if they took the class the second or third year that the professor taught it. The first year the professor was working the kinks out, and after the third year it was too routine. Now if you pissed off the department head, you were going to be teaching introductory physics for Engineers at 8 AM for the next decade, I also had professors who would try to wing a lecture - sometimes it worked, sometimes it definitely did not.

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Oct 23, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

I expect universities to go the way of monasteries during the Protestant reformation.

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Nice work. I was surprised and pleased to see my own suspension and reinstatement at the University of Lethbridge. Universities were most not sites of dynamic discussion about injection mandates and such. They are places where compliant people thrive and independent academics are starved of intellectual oxygen. Here's my latest Substack piece. It includes an Open Letter to the Alberta Education Minister where I address my experience with The Lobby. https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/cant-we-do-better-than-net-zero

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Jun 20, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Loving your article. Seeing "Given the proliferation of wokeness" makes me wonder if you've yet seen Mark Biscone's https://markbisone.substack.com/p/the-black-speech-of-mordor wherein he argues that using the enemy's black speech poisons us and undermines our ability to communicate effectively.

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Accurate piece. I detect many of these trends in academia, sadly, as the author points out.

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Those European readers hoping to escape this collapse, and find a community contiguous to the Russian Federation and its promise of a more enlightened university education, might consider joining Henrinkyla - a project aiming to create a community of traditionally-minded Christian Europeans in rural Finland.

More details can be found at www.henrinkyla.com

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Orthodox Christianity?

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Orthodox welcome; but it's not a specifically denominational project. In the world and not of the world. But not 'ecuminist' either. You can be Orthodox and have TLM-attending Catholic neighbours, right?

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Doesn’t sound too bad actually.

Aren’t you worried about living in Finland though, now that it’s being pulled towards the Anglo-American elite?

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

www.henrinkyla.com/faq

Short answer, no: religious fertility, Swedish minority, populist presence, and Finnish national identity all mitigate against that outcome.

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Hmm... not bad. I’ll have to consider this. Thanks.

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

In terms of location, we're looking at a Swedish-speaking municipality in driving distance from both a Russian Orthodox (MP), Finnish Orthodox (EP), Roman Catholic, and Mission Diocese Lutheran church.

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Where does 1:1 at Yale come from? The link says 81.8 managers per 1,000 sudents.

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Thanks for noticing. That link was old data. Here is an update.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/11/yale-now-has-more-administrators-than-undergrads-thanks-to-a-mammoth-bureaucracy/

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

OK, that's closer but "a 1:1 ratio of students to administrators" conflates the undergrad population with the entire student body.

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Pedantics, but I take your point. Thanks.

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Jun 19, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

"six professors for every student" is also backwards.

Part of the West's decline is due to details being taken less and less seriously.

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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

And some details being taken way too seriously.

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Thanks for your input.

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