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Title: University as an institution
Post by: Nearly Sane 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/
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Walter on January 10, 2017, 04:06:39 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane 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/
NS, please give it a rest with your obsession with psychology and philosophy. I for one am finding it a bit tedious now.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: ad_orientem on January 10, 2017, 04:08:50 PM: Quote from: Walter on January 10, 2017, 04:06:39 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?
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 10, 2017, 04:09:43 PM: Quote from: Walter on January 10, 2017, 04:06:39 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.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Brownie on January 10, 2017, 04:34:46 PM: Quote from: Walter on January 10, 2017, 04:06:39 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.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Walter on January 10, 2017, 05:18:38 PM: Quote from: ad_orientem on January 10, 2017, 04:08:50 PM
Maybe that's two more subjects that should be dropped then, eh?
don't get me started ;)
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Brownie 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.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: ad_orientem on January 10, 2017, 05:46:33 PM: Quote from: Walter on January 10, 2017, 05:18:38 PM
don't get me started ;)

I know the feeling but, at the end of the day, what you think is irrelevant.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Brownie 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.
Title: Re: University as an institution
Post by: Walter on January 10, 2017, 06:06:18 PM: Quote from: ad_orientem on January 10, 2017, 05:46:33 PM
I know the feeling but, at the end of the day, what you think is irrelevant.
I love you too sweetie, mmwah