Comments on: Champagne in the Castle https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: hestal https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-3405 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:04:50 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=352#comment-3405 Glad to hear it, I wouldn’t want you to be an accuracy scold.

]]> By: David Chudzicki https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-3404 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:13:45 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=352#comment-3404 Your claim, as I understood it, seemed so extreme that I wasn’t sure whether that’s really what you meant. If it is, then yeah, I disagree.

]]> By: hestal https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-3382 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:27:14 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=352#comment-3382 David Chudzicki:

If your comment “NOTHING more than” is aimed at my comment, then what is your point? Do you not understand my point or do you merely disagree with the way I expressed it?

]]> By: David Chudzicki https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-3381 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:04:16 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=352#comment-3381 “NOTHING more than”?

]]> By: hestal https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/03/27/champagne-in-the-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-3379 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:19:05 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=352#comment-3379 I spent decades producing systems for the management of private and public enterprises. On balance, the most efficient and effective, measured in terms of providing equal service to customers in keeping with the legal purposes of the enterprise, were public organizations. And as you say, the problems arise when the elected officials decide to indulge their personal theories or to reward their cronies. In the present the phrase, “No Child Left Behind” is as empty as “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

In fact education and the military are nothing more than giant playpens for the self-indulgence of personal fantasies by the ruling juntas. Giant, destructive playpens, and those who wreak the destruction are never held accountable.

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