hey ho.
got up and watched the interview with Stephen Joyce on New Zealand University global rankings which are slipping.
down to the nub and its all about money.
somehow the number of tertiary institutions in New Zealand has multiplied and proliferated like fecund rabbits and the money that should be going to attract top flight academics is going to administrators and bureaucrats and provincial bloodsuckers who will do anything to get a government guaranteed salary.
many of these institutions are teaching occupations and vocations that used to be learned on a job but have now been subsumed by the desire of EVERY new zealander with a little knowledge to become a TEACHER.
I done a coarse mate and now eye no evvryfing.
This process has become almost irreversible as every next generation of politicians finds that these positions have become cemented by political pork barrelling.
Thus we are in the position of trying to move immovable objects.
its all abit sad but a just reflection on the anti-intellectualism and stupidity of kayonedoubleyewones in general.
Later the panel discussed it and surprise surprise the only person with an erudite and recondite vision of how universities function was an academic.
The union man was humble and worth listening to but Mathew Hooton was more or less nonsensical as he opined a whole set of neo-con slogans such as a belief in free markets but as usual he never defined what he meant.
Education itself is not a business.
Privately owning the institution is and it is noteworthy that the private university's in the United States pay the best salaries!
why dont the rags get off their bums and publish some comparison tables?
Paying less does not guarantee a better outcome and a superior education.
It just means that the owners are making more money and that is the New Zealand way.
Everything is done on the cheap.
And if you have thin lips and low cheekbones then you are just another addict projecting your own desire for a cheaper product to protect your own supply.
It seems as if the national party and their myrmidons is over represented by sufferers from foetal alcohol syndrome.
Later listening to Phil Obrien from business New Zealand I hear more dissembling and mis interpretation of history.
He quotes Adam Smith but they are actually misquotes.
When J.K. Galbraith, doyen of American economists, was invited to address a GOP workshop during Ronald Reagans tenure he found them all wearing t-shirts emblazoned with a picture of Adam Smith.
Upon questioning these people he found that none of them had actually read him!
My advice to Phil Obrien is to read Adam Smiths "Theory of Moral Sentiments" where he opines that what gives humans the most psychological satisfaction is command over labour. i.e they want to be the boss and profitability is secondary as long as they have power over others.
Furthermore Adam smith was alive before the true industrial revolution and pushing the line that governments should be minimal is pure madness and just camouflage for the previous opinion that does not rely on external circumstances.
must have hit a nerve.
the trolls are back.
suck the kumara you jerks...
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