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Thoughtcrime at LeMoyne College: the Case of Scott McConnell
 
Pongo
Posted: 14 April 2008 10:42 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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The video is at http://tinyurl.com/63yx3j (I don’t know how to post it here.)

Scott McConnell, an A student, was thrown out of college because he wasn’t thinking correctly about education.  Yes, LeMoyne is a private college.  Still, . . .

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Incorrect speaking is not only an error in itself, but actually does something bad to the soul —Plato, Phaedo (115b.5-7)

 
 
vladimir estragon
Posted: 15 April 2008 12:26 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 1 ]

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Pongo, just curious: did you graduate from college?

 
 
Pongo
Posted: 15 April 2008 11:25 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 2 ]  
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Why do you ask?

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Incorrect speaking is not only an error in itself, but actually does something bad to the soul —Plato, Phaedo (115b.5-7)

 
 
vladimir estragon
Posted: 15 April 2008 11:47 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 3 ]

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I’m wondering about your experience, not your education - I’ve known brilliant people who never went to college, and morons with PhD’s. You seem to have a fixation on stories about academia.

 
 
Pongo
Posted: 15 April 2008 03:23 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 4 ]  
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Oh.  Hardly anyone posts in this thread.  So, I see myself as a kind of public servant.  Plus, I think that nowadays colleges and universities are more about indoctrination than education.  I thought that long before I knew about Horowitz.

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