McCrory wants to revamp higher ed funding, takes aim at UNC-Chapel Hill | CharlotteObserver.com
Anti-Intellectualism in Raleigh? Some people just don't get it. A university education is not vocational school, and lots of smart people study non-academic as in technological subjects. However lots of career fields - including teaching require knowkedge and thinking ability in the humanities, foreign languages, philosophy and religion. McCrory brings to mind Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. My graduate alma mater, Mr. Jefferson's University of Virginia was under attack last summer by an attempted coup on the part of business interests that think a university is in the business of making money rather than intellectual development - entrepreneurs who don't see the value of teaching German, Philosophy or other liberal arts.
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