Quantum Windbag
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http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001937/193750e.pdf
Republicans believe universities are hotbeds of liberalism and education is overrated (after all, science is a faith, evolution a lie and climate change a conspiracy).
Government should "get out of the way" (because they can't do anything right. Look at 8 years under Bush. That proves it.)
Business can do it all, just don't tax them and give them money (because they are sitting on trillions in unspent capital).
This is why our asses are getting kicked around the world. Especially Asia. They refer to the "Triple Helix" as the "Golden Helix" because they understand such a partnership brings in the dough.
We have to get away from this Republican fantasy of economics. They can't even say "supply and demand".
You want to move from the military-industrial complex and give more power to the educational industrial complex?
Be careful what you wish for.
You claim to admire Eisenhower, do you remember what he said in his final address?
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nations scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It was a "warning" not a prophecy. Scientific-technological elite? That's who is kicking our asses overseas. Corn farmers in Kansas are needed, but even they get their corn from scientists.
I find it hilarious that right wingers argue AGAINST science, scientists and education. Hilarious. And they want to be "billionaires"? How they gonna get there? Short answer, they won't.
You know something?
Everyone already knows you are an idiot, you do not have to prove it every time you post.