Ezekiel J. Emanuel, writing in the New York Times in the aftermath of student protests re: the tragedy that is unfolding in the Middle East:
Those of us who are university leaders and faculty are at fault. We may graduate our students, confer degrees that certify their qualifications as the best and brightest. But we have clearly failed to educate them. We have failed to give them the ethical foundation and moral compass to recognize the basics of humanity.
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We need to ask ourselves: What is in our curriculums? What do we think it means to be well educated? What moral stands are we taking?
I spent most of my career working in academia and it is painful to watch what has been happening to much of what we still call “higher education.” While Emanuel’s comments, of course, do not apply to all universities and colleges, it still seems to me that in far too many cases “higher education” has become less education and more job training.
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