Comments for How The English Language, The President Of Princeton University, And “Victimology Studies” Are Related To The New American Police State at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:31:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2504-how-the-english-language-the-president-of-princeton-university-and-victimology-studies-are-related-to-the-new-american-police-state.html#comment-3123 Wonderful, extremely thought-provoking piece. Language was originally meant to be a bridge between humans. Today it is a wall, being reinforced brick by brick each time useless words are uttered without a brain behind them to give them meaning. Today, we make sounds but we don't communicate...our words are as empty as elevator Muzak. Rosy Baldwin rosyb9@aol.com - a guest Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:19:34 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2504-how-the-english-language-the-president-of-princeton-university-and-victimology-studies-are-related-to-the-new-american-police-state.html#comment-3114 For years I have argued that the end of the present system that we call "education" in America will come when business will no longer hire applicants with degrees from American institutions. Anybody who knows, as I do, that our colleges are selling BA degrees to people who cannot read, write, or do algebra, knows that such a time is coming soon. Employers were beginning to catch on at least 10 years ago, and the situation has only gotten worse. You say it started with television. I won't argue the fact. But I will say that today's abjectly corrupt educational administrators were shaped in no small way by books such as Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and by education as an academic discipline. There can be no hope of meaningful reform in American education before the NEA is busted and education as a discipline is abolished. - Jimmy Montague Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:09:38 +0100