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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: The purpose of Universities
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 18:39:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 18:39:48 1985
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["You save my life, Captain Buffalo!  Have a CIGAR!"]

> Excuse me, as a person involved in a University, exactly what did we
> 'purport to sell'? ... Your entire attitude ... I find offensive.
> Sorry sir, grow up. Yes, we make 'em literate *you* do the job
> training, and when that ceases to be, we all lose badly, if you don't
> believe that, try to look beyond your spreadsheet and short term
> employment needs. ... try to get a person with a poor education to
> read a book or solve an abstract idea at all, they'll laugh at you and
> go on living in their sadly limited little worlds. ...  It's disgusting
> the way these attitudes have currently created a climate where
> University funds have all but dried up and fat-cats from industry are
> swinging their pocketbooks in ways that only governments should be
> allowed to like drunken sailors in a whorehouse on payday. ...
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Don't be fooled!  Barry Shein is a dockhand who dropped out of school
at age 10.  He got so smart by reading books and solving abstract
ideas!     8 |-)

-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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