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Nearly Sane

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University as an institution
« on: January 10, 2017, 03:38:43 PM »
Article highlighting that 'real' life and university life may be as far apart as ever


http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/university-as-an-intellectual-asylum/
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Walter

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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2017, 04:06:39 PM »
Article highlighting that 'real' life and university life may be as far apart as ever


http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/university-as-an-intellectual-asylum/
NS, please give it a rest with your obsession with psychology and philosophy. I for one am finding it a bit tedious now.

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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2017, 04:08:50 PM »
NS, please give it a rest with your obsession with psychology and philosophy. I for one am finding it a bit tedious now.

Maybe that's two more subjects that should be dropped then, eh?
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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2017, 04:09:43 PM »
NS, please give it a rest with your obsession with psychology and philosophy. I for one am finding it a bit tedious now.
You don't have to read things if you don't want to. I suspect if we were only allowed to post what no one found tedious on this forum, then it would be an entirely empty forum.

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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2017, 04:34:46 PM »
NS, please give it a rest with your obsession with psychology and philosophy. I for one am finding it a bit tedious now.

Walter, read other threads if you are finding it boring.

I enjoy all threads about philosophy and psychology and would have thought they (along with - ahem - theology and comparative religion), were an integral part of a religion and ethics forum.
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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2017, 05:18:38 PM »
Maybe that's two more subjects that should be dropped then, eh?
don't get me started  ;)

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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2017, 05:35:07 PM »
Can you think of any others, Walter?  It would be good to know what people think of subjects studied in higher education.

I remember many years ago one or two people scoffing at Peace Studies, then offered at the Uni of Bradford, yet it is a varied and deep discipline for which potential students were hand picked.  I doubt those people would scoff at it now but subjects go in and out of vogue.
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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2017, 05:46:33 PM »
don't get me started  ;)

I know the feeling but, at the end of the day, what you think is irrelevant.
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2017, 05:48:29 PM »
If that is the case, why are we all here?

What we think and feel is very important, even if they seem irrational to others at times.
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Re: University as an institution
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2017, 06:06:18 PM »
I know the feeling but, at the end of the day, what you think is irrelevant.
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