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A Beautiful Manifesto

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Evelina Anville posted this beautiful statement in one of our discussions:

Personally, I am getting so tired of attacks on faculty and on the profession in general. Students SHOULD attend graduate school if they desire. People SHOULD be excited to enter this profession. It’s not for everybody of course but this is a wonderful and amazing profession that actually makes our country a better place. But we need tenure to maintain the profession. And I just wish more people talked about the beauty of the profession, about the need for tenure, and about the evils of administrative bloat.

This is very true. We need to spend more time celebrating the best profession in the world on this blog.

4 responses to “A Beautiful Manifesto”

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    Z

    I still say “best in the world” is myopic — there are so many great things to do.

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      bloggerclarissa

      It’s the best in the world for those who love it. Like my husband is the best in the world, or my blog is. 🙂 🙂

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    Evelina Anville

    Thanks for the compliment of reposting my comment. 🙂 @Z: and of course there are a million interesting careers out there. But being a professor/teachers/academic is a wonderful and fulfilling career also. I am just getting really weary of reading so much that proclaims the end of the profession and of the evils of tenured faculty. And if we keep on proclaiming and predicting the end of academia, that’s the surest way to kill it.

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      “I am just getting really weary of reading so much that proclaims the end of the profession and of the evils of tenured faculty. And if we keep on proclaiming and predicting the end of academia, that’s the surest way to kill it.”

      – OK, now I want to post this as a separate post. 🙂

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