Let me understand what you're saying on the orgo class? You're saying a pox on medicine because it's too vocational but since Jones is in the system he has to abide by it? You do get subtle sometimes.
Thanks Davis! I know what you mean. I'm really an intellectual - in the sense of believing that ideas have a logic of their own and that it's very difficult to deviate from that logic. So if a university has a dual function - wide-ranging liberal arts on the one hand and then vocational training on the other (like for medicine) - then there tend to be certain insuperable conflicts within the institution. So my usual move, when a conflict like this emerges, is, instead of looking for some best-fit solution, to say, well, the conflict is inevitable and here's why. In this particular case, the underlying issue is that medicine created a very tight guild system to which the only access point is through elite universities. A professor like Maitland Jones clearly sees himself as serving that system but that creates certain deep-seated conflicts with the liberal arts mission that animates the rest of N.Y.U.'s undergraduate program.
Wide ranging and fascinating, including a novel high on my list: _Stoner_ by John Williams--love the beginning when Lear gets quoted and that just for starters. Thank you and xo. --Mary
So much! So interesting! Need a moment to digest it all.
Let me understand what you're saying on the orgo class? You're saying a pox on medicine because it's too vocational but since Jones is in the system he has to abide by it? You do get subtle sometimes.
Thanks Davis! I know what you mean. I'm really an intellectual - in the sense of believing that ideas have a logic of their own and that it's very difficult to deviate from that logic. So if a university has a dual function - wide-ranging liberal arts on the one hand and then vocational training on the other (like for medicine) - then there tend to be certain insuperable conflicts within the institution. So my usual move, when a conflict like this emerges, is, instead of looking for some best-fit solution, to say, well, the conflict is inevitable and here's why. In this particular case, the underlying issue is that medicine created a very tight guild system to which the only access point is through elite universities. A professor like Maitland Jones clearly sees himself as serving that system but that creates certain deep-seated conflicts with the liberal arts mission that animates the rest of N.Y.U.'s undergraduate program.
Wide ranging and fascinating, including a novel high on my list: _Stoner_ by John Williams--love the beginning when Lear gets quoted and that just for starters. Thank you and xo. --Mary
Thank you Mary! Deeply appreciated.