It seems to me that education is not a role for government. It is an individual responsibility. Governments indoctrinate, they never educate. Truth cannot be found in the monopolistic atmosphere of government indoctrinal institutions. The best thing that could happen to any population, would be for their central government to confine it's�activity to the defense of borders�and adjudication of disputes between citizens and local governments. Public safety and road
maintenance should be handled at the local level. All other functions should be left to the private sectors and charity.
John Beans
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From: michael.gove_uk <michael.gove_uk@yahoo.com>
To: purecapitalism@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, October 10, 2010 2:32:02 AM
Subject: [purecapitalism] OXFORD LEGEND
Professor Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, stresses the
importance of investment in higher education: It may come as a relief to hear
that I intend to resist the temptation to post a detailed statistical analysis
of comparative levels of national investment in higher education. It is a sad
fact, however, that the most recent figures put the share of our own national
GDP at below the OECD average. This seems to me to be quite inadequate and
seriously ill-advised given that higher education is one of the most important
investments in the future that a country can make. It is an observation that
holds true in my mind whatever the government of the day and with or without an
economic downturn.
Hamilton points out the full cost of teaching an undergraduate is estimated at
about £16,000 per year, which means that when you subtract the contribution made
by current tuition fees and public funding, the annual deficit per UK
undergraduate in every year of their Oxford career is about £8,000.
Oxford research can stand comparison with the best in the world and a large part
of the University's international standing is built upon it. In recent times
there has been eye-catching growth in Oxford's research activity, in terms of
both staff and income. But in the current economic climate, funding for research
in all areas of scholarship is threatened as rarely before.
The Vice-Chancellor called on the Government to recognise the importance of
excellence in teaching and research. The Government's recent invitation to do
more research with fewer resources has received an understandably cool
reception. At the same time a government commitment to focus resources on areas
of research excellence may hold out more hope for universities of the calibre of
Oxford.
Basil Venitis asserts the best college on Earth is Oxford University. Most of
the present UK cabinet members are venitists from Oxford: David Cameron, Theresa
May, George Osborne, William Hague, Michael Gove, Chris Huhne, Danny Alexander,
Dominic Grieve, Jeremy Hunt, Philip Hammond, David Willetts, George Young.
Global activity in higher education is spectacular. Some ten million students
worldwide now study outside their home countries. Branch campuses, especially of
American colleges, have seen exponential growth, with more than 500 around the
world. Everywhere, kleptocrats eager to brainwash a bewildered citizenry are
trying to boost overall enrollment, because Ivory Towers usually spread the
cancer of socialism.
Many colleges have a hard time embracing interdisciplinary work, in part because
the tenure and promotion process is not designed to properly evaluate
interdisciplinary scholarship. In fact, the entire college tenure and promotion
system is controlled by disciplinary review boards that measure how professors
stack up against other professors in the same field. Nevertheless, Basil
Venitis, who got his Ph.D. in Physics in 1973, has taught most Science and
Business courses at tiptop American colleges!
Students go to prestigious institutions because these schools have great
reputations, which, in turn, allows students to get the best jobs. In other
words, students who go to elite institutions want the faculty to concentrate on
research and raising funds because that is how universities get the best
reputations. Therefore, what students are purchasing is not an education, but
prestige and reputation. Nevertheless, parents, students, and taxpayers should
know where their money is actually going, and everyone should be concerned about
the quality of education. If students at elite institutions do not get an
effective education, but they do get to purchase prestige, our society will
produce leaders, workers, and citizens who lack the basic skills and knowledge
to be effective inside and outside of the workplace.
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