{"id":8764,"date":"2013-05-22T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/universities-as-leftist-seminaries\/"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:40:01","slug":"universities-as-leftist-seminaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/22\/universities-as-leftist-seminaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities as Leftist Seminaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Seminary,' like 'seminar,' is etymologically related to 'semen,' seed.  <\/span><\/p>\n

seminary (n.)<\/a> \"Look<\/a><\/span><\/dt>\n
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mid-15c., "plot where plants are raised from seeds," from Latin seminarium "plant nursery," figuratively, "breeding ground," from seminarius "of seed," from semen (genitive seminis) "seed" (see semen<\/a>). Meaning "school for training priests" first recorded 1580s; commonly used for any school (especially academies for young ladies) from 1580s to 1930s. Seminarian "seminary student" is attested from 1580s.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/dd>\n

The universities today are places where the seeds of leftism are planted in skulls full of mush.<\/span><\/p>\n

See Harvey Mansfield, The Higher Education Scandal<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

"Today\u2019s liberals do not use liberalism to achieve excellence, but abandon  excellence to achieve liberalism."<\/span><\/p>\n

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'Seminary,' like 'seminar,' is etymologically related to 'semen,' seed.  seminary (n.) mid-15c., "plot where plants are raised from seeds," from Latin seminarium "plant nursery," figuratively, "breeding ground," from seminarius "of seed," from semen (genitive seminis) "seed" (see semen). Meaning "school for training priests" first recorded 1580s; commonly used for any school (especially academies for young … Continue reading “Universities as Leftist Seminaries”<\/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-8764","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\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}