Status Updates From 美国的反智传统

This is taking me a while - it's a lot of information. Good, but a lot to digest.

Very good, interesting how relevant it’s is today having been written almost 70 years ago.

"The characteristic intellectual failure of the critic of power is a lack of understanding of the limitations under which power is exercised. His characteristic moral failure lies in an excessive concern with his own purity: but purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed."

"When power resorts to knowledge, as it increasingly must, it looks not for intellect, considered as a freely speculative and critical function, but for expertise, for something that will serve its needs."

"As soon as the inherited notion of learning as a leisure-class activity is discarded, the style of education it represented also falls under question...Academic and scholastic, instead of being titles of honor, are becoming terms of reproach."