http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/08/30/58/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:19:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/08/30/58/#comment-3462 Elizabeth Minnich Fri, 19 May 2006 01:58:14 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2005/08/30/58/#comment-3462 <p>I am the co-author, with Si Kahn, of The Fox in The Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy. I wish we could keep adding to it: your types of privatization would be very useful, and we did not do enough with privatization in education (because our book is an effort to see what is happening across ALL the too many areas and kinds of privatization, to analyze them together). Anyhow: the notion that teaching, learning, knowledge, research should be for-profit, private goods rather than essential to the public good is appalling -- and we in the U.S. are far gone toward accepting it nonetheless. THE reason given these days to care about higher education is -- you can guess this, knowing the U.S. -- to keep the U.S. competitive (read: able to remain dominant) in the global economy. Did you know that's why you went to university? Teach? Do research? Want your child to go? Well...thank you for your good work; it's far gone but you're right -- it can be stopped. We continue...Elizabeth Minnich</p> I am the co-author, with Si Kahn, of The Fox in The Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy. I wish we could keep adding to it: your types of privatization would be very useful, and we did not do enough with privatization in education (because our book is an effort to see what is happening across ALL the too many areas and kinds of privatization, to analyze them together). Anyhow: the notion that teaching, learning, knowledge, research should be for-profit, private goods rather than essential to the public good is appalling — and we in the U.S. are far gone toward accepting it nonetheless. THE reason given these days to care about higher education is — you can guess this, knowing the U.S. — to keep the U.S. competitive (read: able to remain dominant) in the global economy. Did you know that’s why you went to university? Teach? Do research? Want your child to go? Well…thank you for your good work; it’s far gone but you’re right — it can be stopped. We continue…Elizabeth Minnich

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