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Fri 2 Dec, 2005 06:20 am
Emerson, I suspect, would exclaim, in spades, that it is the scholars who are responsible for the sorry state American culture has become today. I think that if we did not, through ignorance, place scholarship on such a high pedestal we could give scholarship the respectable middle-class avocation it deserves. Scholarship should become the shield that the middle-class populist embraces as a means for putting this sorry culture into a more respectable state.
My point was not about the purpose of a university education--rather, it was about the purpose of a state government in establishing and funding the institution.
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