Read this, please:

ThatOwlWoman said:
Beautifully expressed, Martin. Thank you.

For almost all of our existence, older nations have looked at us as being fairly uncultured, materialistic, focused only on a hedonistic existence. Like with all stereotypes, this is not completely accurate.

But now we're going to live up to this by destroying the wonderful arts and culture we have created in the last two centuries. All because of one incurious, vulgar, and abysmally stupid wannabe despot with excrable taste.
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Tolstoy was reading Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe was almost more popular in France than he was here, and our Blues music artists were more popular in Europe than in America.

We have a lot to be proud of culturally, and it's unfortunate we have a president who's interests are limited to MMA fighting and pornography. No one can expect him to be a steward of American culture.
 
Cypress said:
Tolstoy was reading Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe was almost more popular in France than he was here, and our Blues music artists were more popular in Europe than in America.

We have a lot to be proud of culturally, and it's unfortunate we have a president who's interests are limited to MMA fighting and pornography. No one can expect him to be a steward of American culture.
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Sadly true. One look at that execrable abode in NYC proves your words are truth.
 
Walt said:
You want Harvard to spend their entire endowment? Given the market today, and that the endowment is not invested in liquid investments, that will end up going fast. Then what?

Harvard has no trouble getting customers. They are having some of their customers blocked by the government.
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They better reduce some costs, waste, overhead, and fraud then, huh, buttnugget?
 
Cypress said:
MAGA morons have made perfectly clear for years that they hate higher education.
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You've been trying to pretend like you have it for years. If you did get a degree, your classes were not taught
using the Socratic method, and it's painfully obvious.
For over 2 centuries classes were taught by the Socratic method in America. Democrats and Commies infiltrated
the universities and book publishers and changed that. Now classes are taught by Critical Theory, and that's the brain rot.
Skibidi dah!
 
Matt Dillon said:
If you did get a degree, your classes were not taught
using the Socratic method, and it's painfully obvious.
For over 2 centuries classes were taught by the Socratic method in America.
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You don't need the Socratic method to learn calculus, statistics, physics, chemistry, and Earth sciences, which were the focus of my education.
 
Yakuda said:
Why are you such a little bitch? The "university system" isnt going anywhere you fucking demented drama queen , how it gets paid for is. Not a single one of you cockroaches has yet to explain why Harvard should get one penny of taxpayer money when they have an$50 Billion dollar endowment. Are you fucking retarded. You assholes wail about "tax cuts for the rich" but you want to give a university with $53 billion taxpayer money. Let every university compete for customers like every other fuckig business does. If you provide consumers with a good product at a good price you'll be successful. Turn out morons like the current "university system" does and people will get tired of you.
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On top that Harvard is extremely anti Semite. Guno would just love to accept that fact.
 
Walt said:
The Carnegie Foundation was extremely important. It gave us the idea of credits and classes. There were lectures before, but the Carnegie Foundation forced there to be cohesive classes. A lot of the rest dispersed out from the Ivies. There was also an important step when states began creating state universities.

There are too many names to mention. It all took nearly 400 years to build, and is now being destroyed. The rest of the world has tried to build university systems like the USA, but it takes time, and a lot of effort. If a country messes up, like we are doing now, it is very difficult to come back. Germany is just now getting a good, but not great system, after giving up its fantastic system.
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stfu, worry-wart imbecile.
 
Cypress said:
Tolstoy was reading Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe was almost more popular in France than he was here, and our Blues music artists were more popular in Europe than in America.

We have a lot to be proud of culturally, and it's unfortunate we have a president who's interests are limited to MMA fighting and pornography. No one can expect him to be a steward of American culture.
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Our would be cultural steward actually wants to stage a prize fight at the WH next July 4th.

 
martin said:
Our would be cultural steward actually wants to stage a prize fight at the WH next July 4th.

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All other presidents of both parties were stewards and advocates of America's cultural legacy.


"Although guest artists had been entertaining at the White House for more than a century, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy made the White House a true showcase for the performing arts and their creativity and dedication provided a model for succeeding administrations to the present day.

Music in the White House during the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter reflected a wider segment of American culture than ever before, with the appearance of jazz, gospel, ragtime, and popular song, as well as classical concert and vocal forms.

Ronald Reagan broadened White House musical performance to include not only classical styles as seen under the Carters, but Broadway, country, jazz and gospel, always with creative theatrical flair.

President and Mrs. George Bush recognized music as a supreme American gesture, a vital symbol of American life as it underscored every important national event, social cause and ceremonial mood in the White House. In June 2001, President Bush proclaimed the month of June, “Black Music Month,” encouraging “all Americans to learn more about the contributions of black artists to America's musical heritage and to celebrate their remarkable role in shaping our history and culture.”


www.whitehousehistory.org

Music and Musical Performances in the White House Timeline

1790s Before the White House was completed in 1800, President George Washington and his wife Martha lived first in New...
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Earl said:
In the 1830s, Horace Mann, a Massachusetts legislator and secretary of that state's board of education, began to advocate for the creation of public schools that would be universally available to all children, free of charge, and funded by the state.
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That's exactly what we need now by kicking the government the hell out of our schools. Trump is on his way to helping this
become a reality.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
But now we're going to live up to this by destroying the wonderful arts and culture we have created in the last two centuries. All because of one incurious, vulgar, and abysmally stupid wannabe despot with excrable taste.
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Is this the type of art that you say is being destroyed?


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Walt said:
You want Harvard to spend their entire endowment? Given the market today, and that the endowment is not invested in liquid investments, that will end up going fast. Then what?

Harvard has no trouble getting customers. They are having some of their customers blocked by the government.
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omg.

who will save Harvard.

fuck you dude.


yes.

like atlas shrugged says, elitists are the victims.
 
Cypress said:
Tolstoy was reading Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe was almost more popular in France than he was here, and our Blues music artists were more popular in Europe than in America.

We have a lot to be proud of culturally, and it's unfortunate we have a president who's interests are limited to MMA fighting and pornography. No one can expect him to be a steward of American culture.
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he epitomizes american culture, out-of-touch retard.

he's from a family of hoteliers and real estate developers.

I believe Trump's great grandfather ran an inn in the wild wild west to serve rooms and food to to a new burgeoning American economy.

your worldview is ultimately monarchical and distinctly anti-american.

:truestory:
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Beautifully expressed, Martin. Thank you.

For almost all of our existence, older nations have looked at us as being fairly uncultured, materialistic, focused only on a hedonistic existence. Like with all stereotypes, this is not completely accurate.

But now we're going to live up to this by destroying the wonderful arts and culture we have created in the last two centuries. All because of one incurious, vulgar, and abysmally stupid wannabe despot with excrable taste.
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This is the funniest part, you half wits think being confused about your gender makes you educated and cultured and that demanding others play along with your delusion isnt hedonistic. It only are you self absorbed that you're a moron.
 
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