Discussion With Frog Hospital's Fred Owens About Elite Schools And The Quality Of Leadership

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• Fred Owens

  March 18 · 

  An elite school is a place where a very large amount of academic resources are focused on a very small number of students. Is that a valid description?

  
  

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    Carolyn Rios But it is private not public money. We do not like to restrict anyone’s freedom to frivilously spend their money.... yeah and then some go bankrupt....so that is a poor argument, maybe we should restrict how people spend their money

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    Fred Owens What is so special about these schools that parents will cheat and bribe to get their children admitted?

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    Alan Archibald Elite schools offer "credentials" to "The Club" -- mostly white, mostly wealthy, and mostly determined to increase wealth beyond "normal limits." (Multiple studies have shown that happiness does not increase after an individaul exceeds an annual salary of $70,000.00.) Once inside "The Club," "the mechanisms of membership" facilitate worldly success…See More

    

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    Harvey Blume I'm not sorry I got educated at Columbia. It mean reading a lot of books, I've always gone back to, and spending the rest of the time demonstrating against the war in Vietnam.
    
    Also Columbia was not ruinously expensive then. I had some state scholarships and left with no student debt. It's different now.

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