{"id":8719,"date":"2013-06-11T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/11\/liberal-education-and-government-abuses\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:04:38","slug":"liberal-education-and-government-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/11\/liberal-education-and-government-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Education and Government Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Peter Berkowitz has an excellent column&#0160; under an awful title: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/06\/11\/tenets_of_liberal_education_underpin_govt_abuses_118760.html\" target=\"_self\">Tenets of Liberal Education Underpin Government Abuses.<\/a>&#0160; (I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that Berkowitz chose the title.)&#0160; The problem is not liberal education.&#0160; The problem is the hijacking of liberal education by leftists, and the PoMo Prez who is a product of left-hijacked educational institutions.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The administration\u2019s misleading of the public reflects a teaching that is common&#0160; to much literary theory, sociology, anthropology, political theory, and legal&#0160; theory on college campuses today: Knowledge is socially constructed, and&#0160; therefore the narrative is all.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The very word &#39;narrative&#39; should raise eyebrows and&#0160;and set&#0160;&#0160;off your LBD (leftist bullshit detector).&#0160; A narrative is a story, and stories needn&#39;t be true.&#0160; Talk of narratives is a way of suppressing the crucial question: But is it true?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Knowledge is socially transmitted, but not socially constructed.&#0160; The very notion is incoherent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/08\/truth-is-absolute-part-one.html\" target=\"_self\">Truth is absolute<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Berkowitz has an excellent column&#0160; under an awful title: Tenets of Liberal Education Underpin Government Abuses.&#0160; (I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that Berkowitz chose the title.)&#0160; The problem is not liberal education.&#0160; The problem is the hijacking of liberal education by leftists, and the PoMo Prez who is a product of left-hijacked educational institutions.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/11\/liberal-education-and-government-abuses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberal Education and Government Abuses&#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":[52,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","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=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}