Wow. We need more of this. I support this 110%.

I look forward to a truly Liberal Arts institution in Texas. That the Great Books are a cornerstone, and open free inquiry is the keystone, is a goal all higher education institutions should aspire to.

I am impressed with a number of names on your "forbidden" list. I was however deeply (to put in mildly) concerned with a talk by Ferguson in which he expressed concern that students on the "left" refused to call Hamas a terrorist group. Since everything in the phenomenal world is relative (not so I would hold regarding ultimate and deep Truths which I consider beyond the phenomenal world) if we want to use words like terrorist and reserve it for groups like Hamas then we likewise have to call Israel (or at least it's IDF wing) terrorist too. And if we are to rank the degree to which these respective "bodies" instill pure terror in others I would say in total it would be something like 100:1. With Israel metering out vastly more terror than Hamas. Ferguson likes the idea of western civilization and presumably, like so many of us conditioned by "western " values thinks that whereas close proximity man to man violence is uncivilized dropping massive bombs from remote locations on people you've forced to move to areas you've deemed safe IS civilized! I'm afraid this is deeply flawed and profoundly bigoted and biased thinking. Time for us to put ourselves in others shoes rather than name calling and propogandizing.

@jakebredthauer5100

3 ай бұрын

To know what the school stands for we should know what its leaders stand for.

@waterkingdavid

3 ай бұрын

@@jakebredthauer5100 I confess I don't know a lot about the school if you're talking about Austin University. If it encourages open and honest discussion without name calling I'm all for it.

@ye333

2 ай бұрын

Formal war being more civilized than terrorism targeting civilians is not a recent western idea.

@ikkikita9665

15 күн бұрын

The USA is the world's terrorists and has been at war during basically every presidency barring Carter and even got in bed with Fascist Dictators many times during the Cold war and instigated coups for the benefit of corporations; don't expect anything from these Conservative grifters with connections to the oil and defense industries. It's always profits over people with these types.

I hope they evolve this to include hybrid and remote only. They could really scale an online high quality 4-year program. At scale, they could have local hives of students that meetup to avoid disconnectedness of online learning.

Brown University’s Dean was wandering the halls scraping with their fingernails.

I really hope UATX can successfully challenge the traditional universities. It will be an uphill battle, but it must be won for the future of our civilization.

I hope this succeeds. If not, American higher education is at the end. Currently, I will not send my kid to a US or UK university. Students in US universities are not just living in fear of cancellation, they are modifying what they say and ultimately think to avoid the mere possibility of cancellation. They are doing what they need to do to get a degree. They learn the value of conformity and will most likely never break that habit.

@Gingerblaze

Жыл бұрын

It seems many students and professors in many post secondary institutions have not conciously learned the "value of conformity" but rather believe they are championing something independant or radical while being unaware they are actively conforming.

I like this, but I would have appreciated seeing the names of the students who speak and the institutions they represent in order to learn more from them.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth. - AR