Welcome to Litsy!

This is from the backlist of the author whose book on college admissions I finished 3 days ago. ⬇️ Written 8 years ago as college life was transitioning from millennials to Gen Z, it‘s interesting to see what innovations in college education have withstood the transition. I think he hits well on the importance of critical thinking in graduates, but I think job skills in Gen Z are outstripping the credentialism of the past, which is great, IMO.

Day 2 - #College #LetsTravelAugust

These are the colleges my daughters attended.

Kristin went to Muhlenberg in Allentown PA and The University of Pennsylvania to become a veterinarian.

Meredith went to Penn State University and now she is a Transfer Credit Evaluator at The University of Virginia.

My reading (for fun) has been pretty much non-existent these last few weeks. My college courses are kicking my butt, so I haven‘t had much time to myself. Luckily the semester is halfway through!!

Reading books online is a hassle but this was so rewarding! The Very Short Introductions are my favourite series for learning about new topics

Through. Spell it with me now: T-H-R-O-U-G-H. 🙄
This isn‘t Wendy‘s.

#politics

Past senselessness permits present brutality; present brutality is prelude to future deeds of still greater inhumanity; that is the moral history of the twentieth century, from the First World War to the present. A half-century of accelerating destruction has flattened out the individual‘s ability to make moral distinction; it has made people understandably give up; it has forced private worry into public silence.

Some poignant thoughts from 1962 before 2018‘s State of the Union. #politics

Theoretic chaos has replaced the idealistic thinking of old–and, unable to reconstitute theoretic order, men have condemned idealism itself. Doubt has replaced hopefulness–and men act out of a defeatism that is labelled realistic.

Reading this in 2018 is simultaneously inspiring and devastating. It‘s inspiring that a bunch of 20-something students produced a document which catalyzed a movement that changed the Western world. It‘s tragic that the inequalities and injustices they hoped to eradicate have proved so resilient. The ambition of the Port Huron Statement is matched only by its naïve idealism, but I wish we still had such high hopes; goodness knows we need them.