This blog is part of Kevin Mahoney’s ENG 230 Advanced Composition course for Fall 2008 (and beyond). Over the course of the semester, we will be considering the rhetorical construction of public discourse and how to rhetorically intervene in our public spheres. This blog will be an integral part of the writing you will do and will also serve as one of the course texts–a text that will be written by you.
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February 7th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
There is one thought that is in the back of my mind when I read all these articles. It may be my bias or it may be actual fact, but the one thing I see in common with these reading is that higher education needs to be changed.
As I read about what Liz Coleman did at Bennington College, I can’t help but picture a school taken back to Greek times, with Socrates in the center teacher his followers. Granted, I understand that this college has not been taken to that level, but maybe that is what we need.
I think that higher education needs to get back to its original purpose of teaching students who want to learn. Higher education should not be an assembly line producing workers for the future. It time that all higher education needs to be reformed.