{"id":730,"date":"2009-01-19T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2009-01-19T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T16:55:03","slug":"the-death-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/19\/the-death-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Smith offers some <a href=\"http:\/\/forsclavigera.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/fish-on-fate-of-university-inc.html\">thoughts on the instrumentalization of education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a graduate school prof, I respond:  Oh, bladey bladey blah.  There is a time in everyone&#8217;s career when one gets curmudgeonly.  Yet, much of what he says is true &#8212; probably even more so in law schools, which are expressly offering career-centric training.  But consider the alternative:  an elitist system in which only the (male) children of the very rich get to spend a few years at Harvard or Yale (or Oxford, or the Imperial Court) before rejoining the real world while everyone else labors without any education at all?<\/p>\n<p>I think the time we live in now is so unprecedented in terms of education that we take it for granted.  I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a> magazine this morning with my coffee, an article about a guy who was sequencing his own daughter&#8217;s genome to try and figure out her disability, and thinking:  <em>&#8220;how can the Church remain relevant in a world where a mid-level employee at a biotech company has enough knowledge and technology to sequence his own child&#8217;s genome?  What could we say to a guy like that to convince him that Christianity is intellectually credible and satisfying and the Bible isn&#8217;t just a collection of ancient Hebrew fairy tales?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Smith offers some thoughts on the instrumentalization of education. As a graduate school prof, I respond: Oh, bladey bladey blah. There is a time in everyone&#8217;s career when one gets curmudgeonly. Yet, much of what he says is true &#8212; probably even more so in law schools, which are expressly offering career-centric training. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}