{"id":7101,"date":"2015-06-09T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T12:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/the-decline-of-the-universities-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T12:26:06","slug":"the-decline-of-the-universities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/the-decline-of-the-universities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of the Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c79ba73e970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leaving American Sector\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c79ba73e970b image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c79ba73e970b-800wi\" title=\"Leaving American Sector\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerkimball\/2015\/06\/06\/checkpoint-charlie\/\" target=\"_self\">Roger Kimball<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Really, is there any more pertinent sign for most colleges and universities?&#0160; Cigarettes manufacturers are required to ornament their wares with all manner of alarming advisories, why shouldn\u2019t institutions of higher education face similar requirements?&#0160; After all, the noxious atmosphere they diffuse is perhaps even more dangerous than cigarette smoke, which harms only the body.&#0160; A college education threatens to eat away at a student\u2019s soul and capacity for a healthy, robust, adult emotional life.&#0160; \u201cYou Are Leaving the American Sector.\u201d&#0160; For many, perhaps most colleges and universities today, that about sums it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>&#0160;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Kimball: Really, is there any more pertinent sign for most colleges and universities?&#0160; Cigarettes manufacturers are required to ornament their wares with all manner of alarming advisories, why shouldn\u2019t institutions of higher education face similar requirements?&#0160; After all, the noxious atmosphere they diffuse is perhaps even more dangerous than cigarette smoke, which harms only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/the-decline-of-the-universities-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Decline of the Universities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}