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Are You Tired of the Elite Telling You What to Think?
Back in my days as an undergraduate student, I remember just how much I disliked the way a lot of my professors talked to their students.
They would smirk at our comments. They would pause rudely when asked “silly questions.” They took themselves way too seriously.
Now, that is not to say that I didn’t have good experiences. Of course, I did.
But the bad ones exemplified just how disconnected some of the elite is from the public. If you smirk at us, what about the 30% who never attended post-secondary institutions?
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — G. K. Chesterton
I remember one experience at University in particular that still makes me uneasy.
It was one of the first weeks of the semester. I was attending a seminar and I was on the waitlist to enroll because the class was full, but I was still attending some early classes so that I could ensure that I was not missing anything important.
We were reading Thucydides, an Ancient Greek historian, considered to be the first empirical historians.
