Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: XSO IQ Message-ID: <1560093@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 16:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1560093 Posted: Mon Jun 24 16:44:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 01:21:46 EDT References: <1476@utah-gr.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 26 >/* hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) / 3:35 pm Jun 21, 1985 */ >For further evidence of anti-intellectualism, consider teachers' pay scales >as compared with, say, plumbers' or auto assembly line workers. Altho I agree with you about American "culture" having a streak of anti-intellectualism in it, these are not necessarily evidence of that. Plumbers pay scales may be higher because most people (except hackers :-) consider cleanliness and basic bodily functions before they do education. Auto assembly line workers may get more because people have to drive to work in order to make money to send their children to school, as well as because of union priveliges. >Frankly, the implications of this scare the hell out of me. What can one >say about a culture that values learning so little? One of the reasons for the anti-intellectual climate may be political, i.e., it would seem that the majority of intellectuals are significantly to the left of most Americans. Indeed, I have been guilty of anti-intellectual attitudes for essentially this reason. In addition, many whom the media proclaim to be intellectuals don't really seem to be primarily concerned with matters of the intellect. >The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Mike Sykora