August 17, 2018
VDH on Overeducated Clods
Dana Mathewson
I've been encountering quite a bit of Victor Davis Hanson lately, courtesy of my friends on e-mail, including Eddie, who has doubtlessly seen this one. What a pleasure it is. Now here's some of it on Urgent Agenda.
DECLINE OF ACADEMIC PRESTIGE " QUOTE OF THE DAY " AT 12:31 P.M. ET: Victor Davis Hanson gives us something to think about in his article on the usefulness, or lack of it, of prestigious academic degrees...especially in politics. From National Review:
It is growing harder and harder to equate elite university branding with proof of knowledge. Barack Obama, another Harvard Law graduate, proved this depressing fact a number of times when he asserted that the Maldives were the Falklands, "corpsmen"Â was pronounced with a hard p, Austrians spoke a language called Austrian, there were 57 states, and Hawaii was in Asia.
Joe Biden, another law-school graduate, once stated that George W. Bush should have addressed the nation on television the way FDR did after the stock crash: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television . . ."Â Biden apparently forgot that FDR was not president in 1929 and that TVs weren't introduced to the public until 1939.
The point is not to cite egregious anecdotes but rather to reflect on why Americans have pretty much lost faith in their degreed elite. On most of the major issues of the last 40 years, what we were told by economists, foreign-policy experts, pundits, and the media has proven wrong -- and doubly wrong given the emphases placed on such assertions by the supposedly better-educated professional classes.
Read it all at Urgent Agenda.
I've been encountering quite a bit of Victor Davis Hanson lately, courtesy of my friends on e-mail, including Eddie, who has doubtlessly seen this one. What a pleasure it is. Now here's some of it on Urgent Agenda.
DECLINE OF ACADEMIC PRESTIGE " QUOTE OF THE DAY " AT 12:31 P.M. ET: Victor Davis Hanson gives us something to think about in his article on the usefulness, or lack of it, of prestigious academic degrees...especially in politics. From National Review:
It is growing harder and harder to equate elite university branding with proof of knowledge. Barack Obama, another Harvard Law graduate, proved this depressing fact a number of times when he asserted that the Maldives were the Falklands, "corpsmen"Â was pronounced with a hard p, Austrians spoke a language called Austrian, there were 57 states, and Hawaii was in Asia.
Joe Biden, another law-school graduate, once stated that George W. Bush should have addressed the nation on television the way FDR did after the stock crash: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television . . ."Â Biden apparently forgot that FDR was not president in 1929 and that TVs weren't introduced to the public until 1939.
The point is not to cite egregious anecdotes but rather to reflect on why Americans have pretty much lost faith in their degreed elite. On most of the major issues of the last 40 years, what we were told by economists, foreign-policy experts, pundits, and the media has proven wrong -- and doubly wrong given the emphases placed on such assertions by the supposedly better-educated professional classes.
Read it all at Urgent Agenda.
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