Harvard professors hit with reality

Monday night on Antiques Roadshow, an art evaluator talking about a painting, said, “Social realists were concerned about the common man.”

What? What? By her remarks, the evaluator meant persons of education, especially artists and writers, who, by simply mentioning “the common man” exhibit no realization of anyone outside their own venue of lofts and showings.

With concern for the common man: “Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.”

“Richard F. Thomas, a Harvard professor of classics and one of the world’s leading authorities on Virgil, called the changes ‘deplorable, deeply regressive, a sign of the corporatization of the university.’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=2&referrer=

(“Corporatization of the university,” as opposed to “one size fits all” government and education, espoused by overeducated northeastern university types. Or, the best and the brightest.)

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