Sunday, April 21, 2013

The American Academy: "against creativity and any form of daring"



"If I were to generalize," Mr. [David] Graeber[, the anthropologist,] says, "I would say that what we see is a university system which mitigates against creativity and any form of daring. It's incredibly conformist and it represents itself as the opposite, and I think this kind of conformism is a result of the bureaucratization of the university."
He and his allies also suspect that false information emanating from his public fight with Yale, garnered secondhand, has hurt him.

19 April 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education

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