The Ides of August: College orientation week (scary)
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Note: Republished from August 15, 2018
"To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating." Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it and at whom it is aimed." Josef Stalin
TOO MUCH OF HIGHER EDUCATION IS AIMED AT THE MALE OF THE SPECIES:
"The snowman is, of course, white and invariably male . . . His ritual location in the semi-public space of garden or yard imaginatively reinforces a spatial social system, marking women's 'proper' sphere as the domestic-private and men's as the commercial-public . . " University of Birmingham (UK) professor of art history