Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Infinite Thought's Democracy in America: the short course

IT is back from America, and has taken advantage of opportunities undreamt of by Tocqueville (a monkey traveling companion, a digital camera) to write her own condensed version of "Democracy in America". She seems very impressed by our vast institutions of higher learning over here - and who wouldn't be? U.T., for instance, here in Austin is its own little city. Of course, this has less to do with the Texas belief in facilitatin' the Socratic method in appropriate architectural settings, and more to do with making money in real estate and construction - ah, the fortunes you can make in higher education. But I'm not gonna bitch too much - as an accidental byproduct of building a nice, expensive library building, you often get a library! You've got to stick something in there.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A pic of the UC Berkeley campus! No fair, IT! You're getting me all dewy eyed thinking back to that place, even to Dwinelle Hall - aka Dwin hell Hall - the site of the languages and "comp lit" departments.

Amie

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