The link between civilized behaviour and irreproachable morals to higher education is as much old as unbelievable but, still, it is quite often found it. Of course, education is a "good" thing. However, the argument that higher, specialized education will necessarily yield to a better world and to individuals of superior ethics is feeble _it is also constantly contradicted by the facts. At the same level of College education shall be placed the natural and legal responsibility that parents have upon their offspring education; most of the times the importance of this "private" education is paramount to any other.
I have sometimes commented on both these topics.
Now, if you are not eating or doing any sensible activity, please take a look at the first photography attached here. I took it one of the first days the College of Engineering opened its doors to new students for the course 2011-12 at the male toilets (of course) of the main entrance of the Roberts Engineering Building. It is not the photo of any shabby bar off a solitary and unfrequented highway.
The second one is the looks of the backyard across the SOAS Center of the University College London on a Saturday morning two or three weeks ago. The fame of SOAS is remarkable, I heard, but still people gathering there for the Friday drinks (I was there) seem not to regard to the conventional morals of current citizenship.
I will continue my personal crusade against the vicious belief of Universities as builders of ethical (and Utopian) societies. In the plane of individuals, I don't find any link, unless you believe a high-ethical society can be constructed regardless individuals! This topic could serve to feed an auditorium in a lunch-time lecture. Academicist and intellectuals will love the idea, I am sure.
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