Wax and feathers lift me away from Crete.

[gunsmithprince]

seemingly unrelated: an athiest that failed to offend me [approx. 2 hrs]The anachronism of the tertiary institute calls upon an age of distinct social heirarchy and oligarchy. The currency of university is not ideas as it should be, but rather an elaborate system of favouritism. The organization, then, is a sycophantic utopia designed to hedge

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[maxiboom]

Alternately, while it would be awesome to have a university experience that wasn't coupled with a brain stomping process, I'm not sure it's actually possible to have the ideal. Especially in a large, contemporary society. Sucks, but if you don't put everyone in line and on the same page, things just stop working. Bad for the economy.

Mind, I spent the vast majority of my university time talking with the professors out of class and not bothering to do the assignments because I couldn't usually see the point, so I'm not one to speak on the necessity of practicality, heh.

[gunsmithprince]

The ideal wasn't necessary for me, I would just appreciate more free traffic of ideas and less political agenda. It may be because I am in Ontario with its highly politicized populace and with the young idealists clamouring into university to choke the intellectualism out of its lungs with their loaded language and sychophantic vices, but I have lost faith in the tertiary institution to be anything but this refuge of intellectual exiles -- Communists, Monarchists, Radical Feminists, Atheists, Apologists and more