Good conversation. Something to think about, this so-well -developed sense of responsibility for the children with trust funds, guardians, arranged educations, etc. something to expand on, maybe.
Trade vs university is more timely than ever discussion, as: i) AI is exterminating mid-management, ii) plumbers can’t be off-shored, and iii) universities, especially liberal arts departments, have lost their moorings and mostly just indoctrinate and coddle woefully unprepared students who can’t even read a full novel.
Finally, I’m still trying to recover from your Buckley piece. I can’t seem to rehabilitate him. Best I can do is to think that racist stuff was, in the largest sense, elitism that he would also have applied to lower classes of whites. Had the political scene permitted it, he would have been perfectly content, I suspect, withholding the right to vote from uneducated/unpropertied people of all races/ethnicities.
Still and all, that racist stuff is haunting and I can’t shake it.
Great interview. The info about Oberlin really got my attention. I'm a docent at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati. I won't go into all the details, but she lived in Cincinnati while her father ran Lane Seminary. Cincinnati was a hotbed of dissent between abolitionists and pro-slavery faction.
It's a fascinating history but I'll stick to basics. The trustees of the seminary didn't want the abolition issue played up at the seminary, but the students saw things differently. On their own they held the Lane Debates concerning slavery. They got in big trouble for doing this, and ultimatley half the student body left and went to Oberlin in 1835. It was these students who broke the color barrier at Oberlin.
Good conversation. Something to think about, this so-well -developed sense of responsibility for the children with trust funds, guardians, arranged educations, etc. something to expand on, maybe.
Trade vs university is more timely than ever discussion, as: i) AI is exterminating mid-management, ii) plumbers can’t be off-shored, and iii) universities, especially liberal arts departments, have lost their moorings and mostly just indoctrinate and coddle woefully unprepared students who can’t even read a full novel.
Finally, I’m still trying to recover from your Buckley piece. I can’t seem to rehabilitate him. Best I can do is to think that racist stuff was, in the largest sense, elitism that he would also have applied to lower classes of whites. Had the political scene permitted it, he would have been perfectly content, I suspect, withholding the right to vote from uneducated/unpropertied people of all races/ethnicities.
Still and all, that racist stuff is haunting and I can’t shake it.
Great interview. The info about Oberlin really got my attention. I'm a docent at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati. I won't go into all the details, but she lived in Cincinnati while her father ran Lane Seminary. Cincinnati was a hotbed of dissent between abolitionists and pro-slavery faction.
It's a fascinating history but I'll stick to basics. The trustees of the seminary didn't want the abolition issue played up at the seminary, but the students saw things differently. On their own they held the Lane Debates concerning slavery. They got in big trouble for doing this, and ultimatley half the student body left and went to Oberlin in 1835. It was these students who broke the color barrier at Oberlin.
https://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/Schedule.html