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

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

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

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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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"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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Thanks for your input.

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Orthodox Christianity?

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

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