Dave Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Wrongs
Other than all night bull-sessions, the most positive influence on academic progress is its controversy. Come to think of it, controversy was what those all-nighters were all about. University was, for many of us, a first chance to get away from Dad’s domination of dinner-table politics.
Other than all night bull-sessions, the most positive influence on academic progress is its controversy. Come to think of it, controversy was what those all-nighters were all about. University was, for many of us, a first chance to get away from Dad’s domination of dinner-table politics.
That presumes a dinner-table around which families gather—something in ever shorter supply, if one can believe the statistics. Be that as it may, Dads remain at one end of whatever serves for discipline in the modern family and a main attraction to higher education is escaping the old man’s grip.
David Horowitz wants to be everyone’s Dad. At least, everyone in college.
Under the guise of something he calls an Academic Bil…