tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post556034528917753958..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Finals WeekBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-21404028800485929122010-05-11T18:57:44.143-06:002010-05-11T18:57:44.143-06:00I think the perspectives of Jefferson or Adams wou...I think the perspectives of Jefferson or Adams would be very different from those of the Founders of those universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, were founded on very conservative principles and their founders would have been horrified within a generation. Harvard's Founders wanted the Greeks taught and rejected Descartes. Yale and Princeton were founded because the existing schools were straying into Lockean thought. No, they would not be pleased.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12165084874363214919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-29223387253805773792010-05-07T13:02:08.381-06:002010-05-07T13:02:08.381-06:00I do not know about the Founders but I have heard ...I do not know about the Founders but I have heard that what I feared would happen for years is starting to happen. The problems of spoiled students and parents that destroyed the public education system are starting to do the same to Universities. Soon both will become a joke.<br /><br />Most of all I think federal govt. Intervention in both has caused this. I think most founders would have been against it.King of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com