[csaa-forum] Trashy magpies

[Terry Flew]

Jason

Thanks for the Frank Furedi reference. From what I've read of Frank 
Furedi's history, from the Revolutionary Communist Party to advocacy for GM 
crops today, he hardly seems the exemplar of disinterested scholarship, though.

For more on Frank Furedi, read 
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Frank_Furedi. Unfortunately, I 
didn't find anything he had published under the name of Linda Ryan.

Cheers
Terry

At 03:06 PM 26/10/2004 +1000, you wrote:

>I don't see the problem with academics doing research for the sake of 
>knowledge alone, rather than it having to be 'relevant'. It's about time 
>we intellectuals started defending research that has bugger all to do with 
>the real world and therefore resist the daft assertion that universities 
>are there for employers alone. I would recommend to the list Frank 
>Furedi's Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, a polemic against the 
>dumbing down of higher education, which has received approbation from 
>Terry Eagleton among others.
>
>
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