Book: The glass curtain of America
If we consider the American University not as a social institution and as a business (which is closer to the truth - universities receive per student $ 30,000 a year, and it's a reasonable annual income for a family of three people), that these figures explains a lot. Universities are not profitable to maintain her standards - it is advantageous to maintain the prestige, but it is not always the same.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 17:08
When a person becomes a journalist, it requires self-restraint and outside edition. Any initiative that is not related to "job edition" was deemed to be in conflict with the professional duties of a journalist.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 17:05
If American society is concerned about constant entertainment, rather than a process of electing their own government, and the press focused not on his political views and programs, but on the personalities of politicians.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 17:03
TV is not just "in the air", it is the air we breathe.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 17:02
The purpose of television is to be everywhere; not just clutter the environment, but to be it...
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 15:04
For everyday existence, saturated with images and "chips", the intellectual life is hopelessly slow and cumbersome. Video games world of intellectual practice - the painstaking search for the truth, a fair comparison of different hypotheses respect to the difficulties, reluctance to jump to conclusions - look of mental retardation.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 15:03
The ideal of the teaching of the reformers was simple: "to Teach consumption and the ability to get pleasure from this consumption."
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 15:02
In every country and in every environment has its own etiquette information. If the majority rules or that the information of etiquette is not based on ethical and political taboos, the label anti-intellectual.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 14:13
Until the age of seven until I lived in Moscow, I was taught that reading, science, learning is good. So when I moved to America, I was very surprised to learn that books are something unnecessary, questionable, almost shameful.
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MegaMozg 09-09-2018 / 14:12
