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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: AIA (really, consumerism and college)
Message-ID: <1340@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 18:03:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 18:03:53 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 00:23:28 EDT
Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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>Background knowledge for general living can be acquired from
>reading, which one hell of a lot cheaper and effective. This rampant
>scholasticism is ridiculous. I don't see why people should be pushed to
>spend the greater amount of their lives in debt to government and private
>institution. What makes these assholes think the way to salvation in life
>is college credit? Tuitions are going sky high and people are being forced
>to live their lives in debt. Most universities are narrow minded and
>cartesian to further propel society towards this extreme. The very fact
>that the universities seem to think you need college credit for general
>knowledge is reflective of the vast profiteering that goes on. This
>scholastic culture is rapidly reaching a decline. I don't see how they
>intend to maintain unlimited growth without the wholesale trading of
>human lives. At what point will four years not be enough? How much life
>do you intend to consume?

Thank you kind sir for providing a good example of what I meant in
my last article.

"Profiteering" indeed.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University